Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Maritta is a form of Marita. Marita comes from Norwegian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1934. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Maritta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 126
- 0 boys · 126 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,418 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,418 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 264 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Maritta’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Maritta has a related form in Marita. In Finnish usage, Maritta has a conventional equivalent in the German form Margarete.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Maritta
- Maritta BauerschmidtEast German gymnastborn 1950
- Maritta MarkeSwedish actress (1905-1983)
- Maritta HallaniLebanese singerborn 1997
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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