Maritza — #2230 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Maritza

The Social Security Administration has registered 23,093 babies named Maritza between 1945 and 2024, spanning 80 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maritza currently holds the #2230 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 780 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Maritza performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 5,634 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Maritza shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6,706 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Maritza in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Maritza in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 23,093 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.