girls:
23k births since 1945
#939 (84th percentile)
boys:
79 births since 1964
#4507 (2nd percentile)
overall:
23.1k births since 1945
#1668 (78th percentile)
The name Maritza is the #1,668 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,085 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 78.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #939 (83.6% percentile) for all time with 23,006 births since 1945. For boys, it ranks #4,507 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 79 births since 1964.
Maritza first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for girls and 1964 for boys). Birth data for Maritza is available in 78 out of the 79 years between 1945 and 2023 (78 years for girls and 10 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Maritza has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Maritza reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 60.6% percentile (ranked #371) with 384 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 384 births per million (ranked 60.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Maritza ranks #865 for girls (8.7% percentile) with 50 births per million, which is 12.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Maritza reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #748) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maritza".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Maritza. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.2% confident that Maritza is pronounced as mah-REET-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-REET-suh, at 32.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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