Maritza
Maritza was given to 60 girls in 2025, #2,846 among girls’ names; 23,232 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,300 Americans named Maritza and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 22 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maritza by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maritza mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maritza is “a female given name”
From Spanish Maritza, a diminutive of:
María, from Marīa, from Μαρίᾱ (Maríā), from מרים (miryām, “rebellion”); and
Marta, from Martha, from Μάρθα (Mártha), from מרתא (mārtā, “lady, mistress, ruler”), female counterpart of מרא (mārā, “lord, master, ruler”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maritza?
#2,846 among girls’ names, 2025
Maritza fell from #1,203 in 2015 to #2,846 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.04 per 1,000.
780 babies in 2005, the peak
Maritza peaked in 2005, when 780 girls were given it, #403 among girls’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,846 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 84 | #2,242 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,169 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 106 | #1,903 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 93 | #2,063 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,941 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,782 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 124 | #1,683 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 144 | #1,531 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 160 | #1,444 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 208 | #1,203 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 202 | #1,211 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 211 | #1,142 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 317 | #842 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 300 | #872 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 340 | #804 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 426 | #686 | 0.23 |
| 2008 | 545 | #566 | 0.29 |
| 2007 | 590 | #530 | 0.31 |
| 2006 | 615 | #496 | 0.32 |
| 2005 | 780 | #403 | 0.42 |
| 2004 | 735 | #416 | 0.40 |
| 2003 | 495 | #561 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 468 | #566 | 0.26 |
| 2001 | 506 | #530 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 474 | #554 | 0.26 |
| 1999 | 406 | #600 | 0.23 |
| 1998 | 451 | #551 | 0.26 |
| 1997 | 469 | #513 | 0.27 |
| 1996 | 525 | #472 | 0.30 |
| 1995 | 517 | #479 | 0.29 |
| 1994 | 567 | #448 | 0.32 |
| 1993 | 583 | #430 | 0.32 |
| 1992 | 591 | #428 | 0.32 |
| 1991 | 620 | #413 | 0.33 |
| 1990 | 501 | #486 | 0.26 |
| 1989 | 467 | #503 | 0.25 |
| 1988 | 353 | #579 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 375 | #538 | 0.22 |
| 1986 | 403 | #514 | 0.23 |
| 1985 | 287 | #646 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 301 | #597 | 0.18 |
| 1983 | 293 | #604 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 287 | #627 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 306 | #603 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 339 | #551 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 308 | #587 | 0.19 |
| 1978 | 229 | #695 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 276 | #610 | 0.18 |
| 1976 | 301 | #559 | 0.21 |
| 1975 | 280 | #585 | 0.19 |
| 1974 | 290 | #562 | 0.20 |
| 1973 | 281 | #574 | 0.19 |
| 1972 | 294 | #564 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 308 | #570 | 0.19 |
| 1970 | 320 | #569 | 0.18 |
| 1969 | 299 | #568 | 0.18 |
| 1968 | 247 | #611 | 0.15 |
| 1967 | 241 | #613 | 0.15 |
| 1966 | 243 | #609 | 0.14 |
| 1965 | 246 | #622 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 229 | #675 | 0.12 |
| 1963 | 218 | #681 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 233 | #669 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 248 | #650 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 217 | #691 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 197 | #713 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 166 | #777 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 123 | #931 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 107 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 98 | #1,015 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 86 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 65 | #1,204 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,241 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,652 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,744 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,043 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,612 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,996 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maritza a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maritza has been given almost only to girls: 79 boys in 80 years of records.
Girls and boys named Maritza: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maritza, and how old are they?
22,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 23,232 Americans ever recorded as Maritza. The median Maritza alive today is 33 years old; half are between 22 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 39,311 people named Maritza (39,222 women and girls, 89 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,042 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,720 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,870 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,680 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Maritza born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,630 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,997 | 1.6× |
Where Maritza is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maritza is most over-represented in New York: since 1945 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maritza with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 23,618 babies since 1880, Maritza is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 60 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maritza
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maritza and names like it
- Compare Maritza and MartizaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaritza peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maritza since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Maritza.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maritza alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.