Maritta

#16,414 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to be bitter, through Marita

Maritta has been given to 126 babies in the U.S. since 1934. In 2025 it ranked #16,414 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Maritta, 2025

1 in 663,000

Maritta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maritta: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to be bitter, through Marita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maritta means

Maritta belongs to the name family reached through Maritta → Marita → Maria → Maria → מרים. Its meaning is “to be bitter”.

Origin, language, and formation

Maritta is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marita, Maria and מרים.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Maritta is pronounced /ˈmɑritːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 126 girls were recorded with the name Maritta between 1934 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2020; its best national rank was #3,718 in 1938.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,811 in 2020 to #16,414 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.

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How common is Maritta?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #16,414; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maritta 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maritta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marittas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maritta was born before 1960 — so the typical Maritta is around 65 today.

Median birth year: 1960; About 65 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 23.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 93; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Maritta 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: −1,787; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −5,603; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 55.6%; Peak was 2020 (9)
Years since peak: 5; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,718; 1938

Spellings of Maritta

Maritta is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 37.8% against Maritta's <0.01%.

Maria37.8%566,111
Martha36.8%551,741
Marissa8.1%120,842
Marisa3.3%48,707
Mariana3.1%45,887
Marina2.6%39,514
Maritza1.5%23,153
Marta1.2%17,535

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.

Maritta around the world

Where Maritta 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.

France
2016–2016
#6,159
in 2016
Canada
2016–2019
#2,629
in 2019
South Australia
1976–1976
#645
in 1976

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maritta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #16,414
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 5,603
Best rank ever: #3,718; 1938
Peak year: 2020; 9 that year
First recorded: 1934
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 126
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Maritta

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

Markitta Marzetta Marnetta Marletta Marvetta Maryetta Marguetta Marchetta Maretta Marrietta Marsali Marcetta Maripaz Marialy Marlaya Marketta Mariany Maryori Mariell Maryuri Marieme Mariani Marlani Margetta

Sibling names for Maritta

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Shyann Halie Allyssa Sydni Sydnie Karleigh

For a brother

Aaden Kale Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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