Maritta
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˈmɑritːɑ/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Maritta is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Marita.
- FIFinland1 in 563(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 120K
- DKDenmark1 in 326K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 563 (inferred from the name graph)
9,891 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variant of Marita.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maritta 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 | #449 | 9,891 | 1 in 563 | 11K | Maritta | 36 |
| SE Sweden | — | 814 | 1 in 13K | 814 | Maritta | 23 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 403K | — | Maritta | 5 |
| US United States | — | 264 | 1 in 1.3M | 260 | Maritta | 30 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 500K | — | Maritta | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 115K | 26 | — | — |
| SY Syria | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Maritta | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 32 | Maritta | 5 |
9,891 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Maritta Markeb. 1905SESwedish actress (1905-1983)
- Maritta Wolffb. 1918USAmerican writer
- Maritta Bauerschmidtb. 1950DEEast German gymnast
- Maritta Politzb. 1950DEGerman athletics competitor
- Kaisa Häkkinenb. 1950FInot in their usual nameFinnish linguist and professor
- Maritta Böttcherb. 1954DEGerman politician
- Sari Baldaufb. 1955FInot in their usual nameFinnish businesswoman
- Maritta Törrönenb. 1958FIFinnish professor of social work
- Maritta Beckerb. 1981DEGerman ice hockey forward and coach
- Maritta Hallani, Dana Hallani, Alwalid Hallanib. 1997LBLebanese singer
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)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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 11K | #194 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 9.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 814 | #1,971 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 363 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 362 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 360 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 359 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 359 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 358 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 357 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 353 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 351 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maritta mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Marita. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Maritta?
- In the etymology graph, Mary, Marie and Marilyn are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Maria and Marja.
- How do you pronounce Maritta?
- In Finnish /ˈmɑritːɑ/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Maritta a male or female name?
- Maritta is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Maritta have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 9.9 thousand people named Maritta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maritta.
- Where is Maritta most common?
- Maritta is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 563 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maritta?
- In Finland, the national register counted 9,891 people named Maritta, about 1 in 563 residents.
- How common is Maritta compared with other names?
- In Finland, Maritta is the 449th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maritta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marittaThe 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, “Maritta” — the 449th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.