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Maretta

About 896 American babies have been named Maretta since 1898, most of them around 1950. It has not appeared in the national data since 2014. About 560 Marettas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Maretta

By the numbers

Total US births
896
Estimated living today
560
Median age today
63
Peak year
1950
Best rank
1,911th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1898

How old the living Marettas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 896 babies given the name since 1898, about 560 are alive — 62 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Maretta is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1950

The most popular girls’ names the year Maretta peaked:

All the names of 1950

Maretta among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Maretta 24

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Maretta against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.