Mariposa
#4,039 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mariposa has been given to 416 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #4,039 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Mariposa, 2025
1 in 92,100
Mariposa over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mariposa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 92,100
- 36 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 44,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,039
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 63,832 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mariposa sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mariposa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mariposas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mariposa was born before 2016 — so the typical Mariposa is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 41.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 416
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (173).
Is Mariposa 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
- +807
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,961
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +7,483
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 97.3%
- Peak was 2022 (37)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.4% average annual change
Spellings of Mariposa
Mariposa is not the most common spelling — Marissa is, with 70.7% against Mariposa's 0.24%.
Where Mariposa is used
Across 1910–2025, Mariposa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 523,957 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Mariposa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mariposa around the world
Where Mariposa 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.
- England & Wales2022–2022#4,646in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Mariposa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mariposa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mariposa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.