Maritza

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maritza is a given name, most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is the 96th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua1 in 520◐
  • ECEcuador1 in 653
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 681

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈75K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
353 ●

716K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 653 ◐

Ecuador

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Maritza is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#96248,285115K rec.—42KMaritza69
PE Peru#127233,044187K rec.——Maritza70
MX Mexico#41881,56162K rec.—421Maritza156
CL Chile#20177,4577.2K rec.—5Maritza93
CO Colombia#18645,68218K rec.—26Maritza120
SV El Salvador#9439,84334K rec.——Maritza35
US United States—39,222144K rec.1 in 8.5K39KMaritza353
NI Nicaragua#2328,96029K rec.——Maritza31
EC Ecuador#18125,880△1.5K rec.1 in 65326KMaritza67
CR Costa Rica#586,29122K rec.1 in 8106.3KMaritza46
FR France—2,0371.6K rec.——Maritza120
ES Spain—2,01310K rec.1 in 25K2KMaritza89

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish1M67%
  • English285K19%
  • 57K4%
  • Portuguese21K1%
  • French4.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,028,55267%
English284,54519%
56,5534%
Portuguese20,5041%
French4,1421%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Maritza is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name307K records spelled Maritza19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Marítza, Märîtžä, Märitzä, Märïtzä, Märîtzå

  • Belarusian given name1.9K records spelled Maritza5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Spain, Russia

    Languages: Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Маритза, Маритца

  • Finnish given name1.4K records spelled Maritza3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Märitzä

  • Croatian given name791 records spelled Maritza155 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Finland, Poland, Czechia

    Languages: Croatian, Finnish, Polish

    Also written Marica, Marika, Марита, Მარიკა, Марика

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02505007501K19401960198020002020885 · 1979

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Maritza in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1926–2024
Yearrecords
19261
19281
19321
19352
19362
19372
19382
19393
19402
19422
19434
19442
19454
19468
19479
19487
194912
195017
195120
195231
195359
195453
195565
195672
1957135
1958112
1959131
1960169
1961201
1962204
1963218
1964337
1965377
1966375
1967334
1968373
1969354
1970409
1971448
1972518
1973528
1974549
1975596
1976664
1977703
1978747
1979885
1980756
1981809
1982858
1983780
1984846
1985827
1986768
1987712
1988703
1989575
1990608
1991552
1992608
1993531
1994591
1995677
1996402
1997346
1998396
1999391
2000323
2001291
2002239
2003240
2004192
2005254
2006232
2007198
2008206
2009211
2010157
2011135
2012102
201396
2014100
201568
201651
201760
201859
201944
202031
202139
202227
202329
202414

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 92 years between 1926–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19501960197019801990Maritza Olivares, b. 1956Maritza Pineda, b. 1956Maritza Sayalero, b. 1961Maritza Martén, b. 1963Maritza Corredor, b. 1969Maritza Arribas Robaina, b. 1971Maritza Rodríguez, b. 1975Maritza Bustamante, b. 1980Maritza Correia, b. 1981

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 54 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Maritza
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—42K#18
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202039K#1,060
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202426K#74
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—6.3K#114
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2K#1,731
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.6K#1,053
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022693—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—690#10,656
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—540#7,026
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—512#14,079
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—421#245
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—369#3,409

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 566 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Maritza?
We estimate roughly 75 thousand people bear Maritza (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Maritza have the most bearers?
Maritza is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled maritza.
How common is Maritza compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Maritza is the 96th most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.
Is Maritza a male or female name?
Maritza is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maritza” — the 96th most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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