Marita

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A female given name from Ancient Greek occasionally used in English

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

/mɑɹitə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Marita is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Faroe Islands it is the 97th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 616(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 1.2K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 2.7K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈30,000 people, est.

Sources
313 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 252 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A female given name from Ancient Greek occasionally used in English.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

How Marita is read(measured from records)

Marita is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English32%

    A female given name from Ancient Greek occasionally used in English.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish24%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Marita in Spanish.

  • German20%

    weibl. Vom., norwegische Variante von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Marita 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.

Where Marita is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#419≈30,000 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Marita165
PH Philippines—≈24,000 est.≈1 in 4.5K—Marita58
FI Finland—22,1091 in 25229KMarita28
SE Sweden#19216,5551 in 61617KMarita73
PE Peru—≈6,500 est.≈1 in 4.9K—Marita27
NO Norway#2584,4311 in 1.2K16KMarita84
LV Latvia—1,2211 in 1.5K1.2K—14
FO Faroe Islands#97≈2 est.≈1 in 30K106Marita4

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); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Marita is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name50 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States, Georgia

    Languages: Finnish, Arabic, Hindi

    Also written Μαρίτα, Μαριτα, მარითა, Màŕįta, Màrità

  • Spanish given name34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Philippines, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Maríta, Marĭta, Márita, Mãrïtã, Märïtä

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Maríta

  • Polish given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Ukraine, United States, Russia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Маріта, Марыта, Mâříťã, Marița, Maritã

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Márita, Marița

  • Croatian given name125 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Russia, United States, Italy

    Languages: Croatian, Russian, English

    Also written Marica, Марита, Марика, Marika, Марица

  • Latvian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Philippines, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Mārita, Mārįtā, Mārītã

  • Albanian given name30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Laos, United States, Kosovo

    Languages: Albanian, Amharic, Thai

    Also written Merita, መርታ, เมริตา, เมริตาุ, Мерита

37 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Marita is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Marita är en spansk och italiensk form av → Maria medan Maritta är en finsk och tysk form av detta namn. Marita förekommer också i Sverige under 1800-talet som en smekform till → Maria. I den rikssvenska almanackan 22 oktober och i den finlandssvenska 15 augusti.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Latin, a married woman, wife

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Interlingua, wife

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish: pet form of MARIA .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Marita Camacho Quirós, b. 1911Marita Böhme, b. 1939Marita Lange, b. 1943Marita Ulvskog, b. 1951Marita Grabiak, b. 1953Marita Koch, b. 1957Marita Sandig, b. 1958Marita Payne, b. 1960Marita Geraghty, b. 1962Anna von Bayern, b. 1978

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Marita,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 80 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Marita
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—29K#76
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—22K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—17K#260
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—16K#284
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20208.8K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20254.4K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—1.2K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—1.2K#372
FO Faroe IslandsHagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024)—106—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)20224—
FO Faroe IslandsFólkanavnalistin — official advisory list of given names (Navnanevndin)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Marita mean, and where does it come from?
A female given name from Ancient Greek occasionally used in English. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Marita?
In the etymology graph, Margaret, Margarita and Megan are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Maria and María.
How do you pronounce Marita?
A machine transcription gives /mɑɹitə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Marita a male or female name?
Marita 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.
How common is the name Marita?
In Finland, the national register counted 22,109 people named Marita, about 1 in 252 residents.
How common is Marita compared with other names?
In Germany, Marita is the 419th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
In which country does Marita have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Marita in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marita.
Where is Marita most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marita is densest in Finland — about 1 in 252 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.

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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, “Marita” — the 419th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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