Marița
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marița is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded in Sweden in 1880. From Norwegian Marita, by folk etymology confused with Maria and Marta.
- FIFinland1 in 252(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 616
- NONorway1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 252 (inferred from the name graph)
22,109 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Marita in NO Norway, US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
First recorded in Sweden in 1880. From Norwegian Marita, by folk etymology confused with Maria and Marta.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marița counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 22,109 | 1 in 252 | 29K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 16,555 | 1 in 616 | 17K | — | 3 |
| US United States | 5,506 | 1 in 60K | 5.5K | Marita | 31 |
| NO Norway | 4,431 | 1 in 1.2K | 16K | Marita | 7 |
| LV Latvia | 1,221 | 1 in 1.5K | 1.2K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 569 | 1 in 9K | 569 | — | — |
22,109 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gelu MarițaRORomanian politician from Vișina, Olt County
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(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marița mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded in Sweden in 1880. From Norwegian Marita, by folk etymology confused with Maria and Marta. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- In which country does Marița have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Marița, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Marița most common?
- Marița is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 252 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Marița?
- In Finland, the national register counted 22,109 people named Marița, about 1 in 252 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mari%C8%9BaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Marița”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.