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Mariluz

#8,672 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of María

Mariluz has been given to 440 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #8,672 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Mariluz, 2025

1 in 276,000

Mariluz 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mariluz: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of María

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mariluz means

Mariluz is a short form of María.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mariluz → María → Maria → מרים. The family’s proposed meaning is “to be bitter”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements m-r-r.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include María.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 440 girls were recorded with the name Mariluz between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2004; its best national rank was #4,682 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,007 in 2020 to #8,672 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,957 in 2015 to #8,672 in 2025.

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 Mariluz?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,672
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mariluz 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 2025 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariluz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mariluzs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariluz was born before 1997 — so the typical Mariluz is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
440
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Mariluz 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
+3,097
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,335
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,285
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 2004 (16)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,682
1972

Spellings of Mariluz

Mariluz is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 95.0% against Mariluz's 0.11%.

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.

Where Mariluz is used

Across 1910–2025, Mariluz was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 997,311 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mariluz has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mariluz by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,672
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,335
Best rank ever
#4,682
1972
Peak year
2004
16 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
440
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Mariluz

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

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Sibling names for Mariluz

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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