Yaritza
Feminine
Yaritza is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 8,431 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Yaritza is a Puerto Rican and Dominican name of the late twentieth century, and it belongs to one of the most inventive naming cultures anywhere. The Caribbean has been making names outright for two generations, and this is one of the successful ones.
How old is the name Yaritza?
Yaritza first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Yaritza alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 8,300 people named Yaritza are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yaritza most popular?
Yaritza peaked in 1993, reaching #492 nationally. Today it ranks #2859, 2,367 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Yaritza
Our story of Yaritza is about a naming culture that stopped asking permission. Through most of Latin American history a child got a saint's name, chosen from a calendar that had been fixed for centuries. Then, across the Spanish Caribbean in the second half of the twentieth century, families simply began building instead — taking a Y from one place, an ending from another, a sound from a song, and putting a name on the certificate that had never existed before. Whole cohorts of cousins carry names invented in those decades. Yaritza is one of them, and its lack of an ancient root is not a gap in the record. It is the point.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Nothing is documented. Yaritza appears in Puerto Rican and Dominican use without a recorded derivation, and the glosses circulating online — 'little butterfly' among them — have no source. The Ya- opening and the -itza ending are both live and productive in Caribbean Spanish naming, appearing across Yaritza, Yaneisy, Yamilet and Maritza, and a shared pattern is not an etymology. A Taíno origin is sometimes claimed and there is no evidence for it.
Pronouncing Yaritza
yah-REET-sah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The tz is a single ts sound in Spanish, not a z. English speakers usually say yuh-RIT-zuh with a z, which is the standard American simplification.
Nicknames for Yaritza
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 1993510 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #492reached in 1993
- Change vs 2024
- +3.5%59 in 2025, from 57
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Yaritza in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Arizona.
Yaritzas among us
people named Yaritza are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 27,242 born in 2025 was named Yaritza
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Karol test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yaritza's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Karol climbed just as high around 1944, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Karol's path sketches the road Yaritza is walking now.
Yaritza sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Yaritza is headed
Yaritza is easing off slowly — about 42% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Yaritza beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yaritza in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Every sound is straightforward in Spanish and manageable in English.
- Yari is a strong, established short form used widely in Caribbean families.
- Firmly established in Puerto Rican and Dominican use rather than newly assembled.
- It has no documented meaning, so any gloss offered for it is invented.
- The tz is said as ts in Spanish and z in English, so the name shifts on crossing.
- Yaritza, Yaritsa and Yaridza all circulate and get confused.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yaritzas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 8,300 people named Yaritza are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yaritza in 2025?
- Yaritza ranks #2859 among US girl names in 2025, with 59 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yaritza?
- About 1 in every 27,242 US girls born in 2025 was named Yaritza — 59 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yaritza with classmates?
- Yaritza will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Yaritza
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