Meaning not yet researched.
Maricruz: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,005 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,005 in 1988; #7,742 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maricruz in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,742 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #1,005.
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Maricruz: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,005 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 169 (1990).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Maricruz, making it the 7,742nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,024 places from #8,766 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 12 girls named Maricruz in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,005, reached in 1988. The most girls given the name in a single year was 169, in 1990. For comparison, it was #5,068 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maricruz in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 6 babies. In all, 2,917 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,088 babies named Maricruz.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 155 US girls were named Maricruz; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Marycruz, Maricris and Maricrus are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marycruz (436), Maricris (33), Maricrus (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Maricruz in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,742 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,766 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,507 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,856 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,346 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,254 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,928 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,972 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,602 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,736 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,068 | — | — |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,421 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,250 | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,198 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,153 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,537 | — | — |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,685 | — | — |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,352 | — | — |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,028 | — | — |
| 2003 | 84 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 1997 | 88 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1993 | 124 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1991 | 137 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1990 | 169 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1989 | 101 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1988 | 163 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,599 | — | — |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,969 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,903 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,113 | — | — |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,032 | — | — |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,704 | — | — |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,657 | — | — |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,452 | — | — |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,829 | — | — |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,759 | — | — |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,864 | — | — |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,704 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,488 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,304 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).