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Mareta

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Mareta has been given to 151 babies in the U.S. since 1900. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1930, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Mareta, 1989

1 in 549,000

Mareta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mareta: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mareta means

Mareta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mareta is used in Old Czech.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Mareta is pronounced /ˈmarɛta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 151 girls were recorded with the name Mareta between 1900 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1930; its best national rank was #2,110 in 1900.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mareta?

Mareta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989
1 in 549,000
7 of 3,842,268 births
Among girls only
1 in 263,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1989
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
380,466 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mareta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 380,466 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mareta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maretas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mareta was born before 1927 — so the typical Mareta is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
33.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Mareta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1930 (13)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,110
1900

Spellings of Mareta

Mareta is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 31.7% against Mareta's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Mareta around the world

Where Mareta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1969–1969
    #731
    in 1969

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mareta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,110
1900
Peak year
1930
13 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
151
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mareta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mareta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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