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Yaritza

#2,894 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Yara

Yaritza has been given to 8,436 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,894 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 510 recorded.

Babies named Yaritza, 2025

1 in 56,200

Yaritza over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yaritza: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yaritza means

Yaritza is a form of Yara.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Yaritza is a form of Yara. Yara has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Yaritza is used in Spanish.

Yaritza is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,431 girls were recorded with the name Yaritza between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 510 in 1993; its best national rank was #492 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,210 in 2020 to #2,894 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #940 in 2015 to #2,894 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Yaritza between 1993 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1993; its best national rank was #10,124 in 1993.

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 Yaritza?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 56,200
59 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 27,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,894
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yaritza 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 38,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yaritza. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yaritzas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yaritza was born before 2008 — so the typical Yaritza is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,431
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Choose a decade

2010s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (2,739).

Is Yaritza 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
+32
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,684
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,954
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.6%
Peak was 1993 (510)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#492
1993

Spellings of Yaritza

Yaritza is not the most common spelling — Maritza is, with 33.2% against Yaritza's 12.1%.

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 Yaritza is used

Across 2016–2025, Yaritza was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 3,125 girls, against 1 in 7,298 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

232 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 3,125
  2. 2Colorado1 in 4,167
  3. 3California1 in 4,762
  4. 4Texas1 in 4,762
  5. 5Illinois1 in 6,250
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 7,692
  7. 7Washington1 in 9,091
  8. 8Florida1 in 10,000

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.

Yaritza around the world

Where Yaritza 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
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Yaritza by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,894
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,684
Best rank ever
#492
1993
Peak year
1993
510 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,431
Count in 2025
59

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,124
1993
Peak year
1993
5 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yaritza

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

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Names with a curve like Yaritza

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Yaritza, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Yaritza

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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