Maritza
Maritza is a girl's name that peaked in 2005, when it was the 403rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,822nd. About 22,000 Maritzas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Maritza boys named Maritza
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 23,232
- Estimated living today
- 22,000
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 403rd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,822nd
- First recorded
- 1945
- Girls / boys
- 23,153 / 79
How old the living Maritzas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 23,232 babies given the name since 1945, about 22,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 3,600 of them are children and 930 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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 the name comes from
From Spanish Maritza, a diminutive of:.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Maritzas
- Maritza Martén (born 1963)Cuban discus thrower
- Maritza Sayalero (born 1961)beauty queen who was crowned Miss Venezuela in 1979
- Maritza Bustamante (born 1980)Venezuelan actress
- Maritza Arribas Robaina (born 1971)Cuban chess player
People named Maritza with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Maritza is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Maritza is most concentrated in Arizona (3.5×), California (3.2×), New York (2.5×), Nevada (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular girls’ names the year Maritza peaked:
Maritza elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Maritza | 130 | 3,030th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Maritza 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 | Maritza | 66 | 127 |
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.
Where Maritza lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,013 women called Maritza were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Maritza | 106 | 0.191 | 564 |
| Palmas, Las | Maritza | 107 | 0.181 | 596 |
| Madrid | Maritza | 460 | 0.124 | 590 |
| Guadalajara | Maritza | 16 | 0.114 | 668 |
| Segovia | Maritza | 8 | 0.101 | 766 |
| Barcelona | Maritza | 290 | 0.095 | 750 |
Listed in 44 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 8 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Maritza against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.