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Maritza

“rebellion”

feminineLatin script

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Swedish

Origin: Spanish
4 language contexts: English Spanish Danish +1 more
Follow the evidence: 6 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Maritza

Maritza is a feminine given name documented in English, Spanish, Danish and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Spanish Maritza, with the stated meaning “rebellion”.

Spanish origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “rebellion”

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”).

Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Maritza is used

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Select a country to follow Maritza’s connections around the world.

5 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 60 girls (rank 2822). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 16 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Maritza

Region and dataset

Latest · 2025: 60; applications; Rank #2,822
Peak year: 2005; 780 applications

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Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Maritza in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	5	4,556	observed
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	7	4,345	observed
1948	6	4,651	observed
1949	5	5,244	observed
1950	16	2,535	observed
1951	16	2,577	observed
1952	22	2,200	observed
1953	65	1,199	observed
1954	86	1,057	observed
1955	98	1,010	observed
1956	107	977	observed
1957	123	924	observed
1958	166	776	observed
1959	197	712	observed
1960	217	689	observed
1961	248	650	observed
1962	233	667	observed
1963	218	681	observed
1964	229	674	observed
1965	246	622	observed
1966	243	609	observed
1967	241	612	observed
1968	247	611	observed
1969	299	568	observed
1970	320	569	observed
1971	308	569	observed
1972	294	563	observed
1973	281	573	observed
1974	290	562	observed
1975	280	585	observed
1976	301	559	observed
1977	276	610	observed
1978	229	694	observed
1979	308	587	observed
1980	339	550	observed
1981	306	603	observed
1982	287	627	observed
1983	293	604	observed
1984	301	597	observed
1985	287	644	observed
1986	403	514	observed
1987	375	537	observed
1988	353	578	observed
1989	467	503	observed
1990	501	485	observed
1991	620	412	observed
1992	591	427	observed
1993	583	430	observed
1994	567	447	observed
1995	517	477	observed
1996	525	472	observed
1997	469	513	observed
1998	451	550	observed
1999	406	600	observed
2000	474	552	observed
2001	506	529	observed
2002	468	566	observed
2003	495	558	observed
2004	735	416	observed
2005	780	403	observed
2006	615	495	observed
2007	590	529	observed
2008	545	565	observed
2009	426	683	observed
2010	340	804	observed
2011	300	871	observed
2012	317	841	observed
2013	211	1,138	observed
2014	202	1,205	observed
2015	208	1,199	observed
2016	160	1,439	observed
2017	144	1,529	observed
2018	124	1,677	observed
2019	115	1,773	observed
2020	99	1,924	observed
2021	93	2,057	observed
2022	106	1,898	observed
2023	88	2,156	observed
2024	84	2,231	observed
2025	60	2,822	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Maritza” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

People on Wikidata whose recorded given name is this item (not necessarily their first name), ordered by number of Wikipedia articles. Their names may use a different spelling.

Maritza Martén (born 1963) — Cuban discus thrower source
Maritza Sayalero (born 1961) — beauty queen who was crowned Miss Venezuela in 1979 source
Maritza Bustamante (born 1980) — Venezuelan actress source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Maritza with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms5

Wikidata Q19689495CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Maritza.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Maritza

Maritza is a feminine given name documented in English, Spanish, Danish and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Spanish Maritza, with the stated meaning “rebellion”.

Spanish origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “rebellion”

Sources for this account (4)

Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Maritza is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Maritza’s connections around the world.

5 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2025: 60 girls (rank 2822). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 16 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Maritza

Region and dataset

Latest · 2025: 60; applications; Rank #2,822
Peak year: 2005; 780 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Maritza in United States, girls: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	no value	no value	not covered
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	no value	no value	not covered
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	no value	no value	not covered
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	no value	no value	not covered
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	5	4,556	observed
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	7	4,345	observed
1948	6	4,651	observed
1949	5	5,244	observed
1950	16	2,535	observed
1951	16	2,577	observed
1952	22	2,200	observed
1953	65	1,199	observed
1954	86	1,057	observed
1955	98	1,010	observed
1956	107	977	observed
1957	123	924	observed
1958	166	776	observed
1959	197	712	observed
1960	217	689	observed
1961	248	650	observed
1962	233	667	observed
1963	218	681	observed
1964	229	674	observed
1965	246	622	observed
1966	243	609	observed
1967	241	612	observed
1968	247	611	observed
1969	299	568	observed
1970	320	569	observed
1971	308	569	observed
1972	294	563	observed
1973	281	573	observed
1974	290	562	observed
1975	280	585	observed
1976	301	559	observed
1977	276	610	observed
1978	229	694	observed
1979	308	587	observed
1980	339	550	observed
1981	306	603	observed
1982	287	627	observed
1983	293	604	observed
1984	301	597	observed
1985	287	644	observed
1986	403	514	observed
1987	375	537	observed
1988	353	578	observed
1989	467	503	observed
1990	501	485	observed
1991	620	412	observed
1992	591	427	observed
1993	583	430	observed
1994	567	447	observed
1995	517	477	observed
1996	525	472	observed
1997	469	513	observed
1998	451	550	observed
1999	406	600	observed
2000	474	552	observed
2001	506	529	observed
2002	468	566	observed
2003	495	558	observed
2004	735	416	observed
2005	780	403	observed
2006	615	495	observed
2007	590	529	observed
2008	545	565	observed
2009	426	683	observed
2010	340	804	observed
2011	300	871	observed
2012	317	841	observed
2013	211	1,138	observed
2014	202	1,205	observed
2015	208	1,199	observed
2016	160	1,439	observed
2017	144	1,529	observed
2018	124	1,677	observed
2019	115	1,773	observed
2020	99	1,924	observed
2021	93	2,057	observed
2022	106	1,898	observed
2023	88	2,156	observed
2024	84	2,231	observed
2025	60	2,822	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

People on Wikidata whose recorded given name is this item (not necessarily their first name), ordered by number of Wikipedia articles. Their names may use a different spelling.

Maritza Martén (born 1963) — Cuban discus thrower source
Maritza Sayalero (born 1961) — beauty queen who was crowned Miss Venezuela in 1979 source
Maritza Bustamante (born 1980) — Venezuelan actress source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms5

Wikidata Q19689495CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spanish Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: MaritzaCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Maritza.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Maritza

Spanish origin

Where Maritza is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

Related names

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Maritza

Spanish origin

Where Maritza is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Notable bearers (sourced)

Related names

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page