Meaning not yet researched.
Marita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #769 in 1938.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #769 in 1938; #6,732 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,732 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1938, at #769.
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Marita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #769 in 1938 · most girls in one year: 125 (1954).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Marita, making it the 6,732nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,046 places from #11,778 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 8 girls named Marita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #769, reached in 1938. The most girls given the name in a single year was 125, in 1954. For comparison, it was #9,309 in 2015 and #1,014 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marita in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 6 babies. In all, 5,088 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,056 babies named Marita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 123 US girls were named Marita; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Maria (570,389 babies since 1880) and Marietta (15,055 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maurita and Maratha 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Finnish and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maurita (925), Maratha (22).
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 Marita 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 | 17 | #6,732 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,778 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,140 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,690 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,885 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,997 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,213 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,300 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,721 | — | — |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,818 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,309 | — | — |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,528 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,411 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,675 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,897 | — | — |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,765 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,524 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,537 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,455 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,690 | — | — |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,770 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,422 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,316 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,846 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,989 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,614 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,099 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,586 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,129 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,414 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,625 | — | — |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,462 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,169 | — | — |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,685 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,534 | — | — |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,855 | — | — |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,301 | — | — |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,176 | — | — |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,751 | — | — |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 1968 | 54 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1967 | 63 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 1966 | 75 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 1965 | 72 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1964 | 80 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1962 | 98 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1961 | 103 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1960 | 109 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1959 | 95 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1958 | 118 | #952 | — | — |
| 1957 | 106 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1956 | 111 | #960 | — | — |
| 1955 | 121 | #887 | — | — |
| 1954 | 125 | #844 | — | — |
| 1953 | 106 | #918 | — | — |
| 1952 | 92 | #986 | — | — |
| 1951 | 100 | #919 | — | — |
| 1950 | 82 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1949 | 94 | #916 | — | — |
| 1948 | 95 | #894 | — | — |
| 1947 | 85 | #967 | — | — |
| 1946 | 86 | #904 | — | — |
| 1945 | 59 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1944 | 55 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1943 | 73 | #911 | — | — |
| 1942 | 78 | #881 | — | — |
| 1941 | 83 | #794 | — | — |
| 1940 | 65 | #890 | — | — |
| 1939 | 56 | #949 | — | — |
| 1938 | 83 | #769 | — | — |
| 1937 | 59 | #900 | — | — |
| 1936 | 49 | #988 | — | — |
| 1935 | 67 | #845 | — | — |
| 1934 | 59 | #892 | — | — |
| 1933 | 67 | #818 | — | — |
| 1932 | 53 | #975 | — | — |
| 1931 | 44 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1928 | 39 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1926 | 33 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1923 | 38 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,719 | — | — |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,596 | — | — |
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).