Maritza
Maritza is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 84 births. Its best rank was 403rd, in 2005.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 840.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2005780 births
- Best rank
- #403in 2005
- Since 1945
- 23,093people given the name
The story in the numbers
23,093 girls have been named Maritza in the United States since 1945, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 780 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 2000s alone account for 24%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Maritza | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 23 | |
| 1950s | 896 | |
| 1960s | 2,421 | |
| 1970s | 2,887 | |
| 1980s | 3,411 | |
| 1990s | 5,230 | |
| 2000s | 5,634 | |
| 2010s | 2,121 | |
| 2020s | 470 |
In 2005, its biggest year
Maritza was the 403rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2005 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Abigail and Olivia. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Maritza
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Deniapeak 2000
- Deonnapeak 1997
- Alisiapeak 1998
- Ivonnepeak 1992
- Taviapeak 1993
- Cinthiapeak 1996
- Dyannapeak 2005
- Dyanapeak 2004
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.