Yaritza is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Yaritza isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Yaritza ranks 968. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Yaritza. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yaritza.
Yaritza is a name of Latin American origin. It was inspired by Maritza, an elaboration of Maria in Latin America, and Yara, an Arabic name meaning ‘friend, helper’, that became more common in Spanish during the 20th century. The name Yaritza has no actual meaning.
The name Maritza has been... known in the USA since the 1940s, but it is still very rare today. Yaritza was introduced here in the 1970s.
Yaritza is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Yaritza - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 463 in 1993. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Yaritza really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yaritza was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
215 babies were named Yaritza in 2022 - that's 1 in 689,451 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Yaritza ranked 1,026 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Yaritza has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.8% of all girls’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common girls’ name that starts with Y is Yvonne.
If your name is Yaritza and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yaritza, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Tiger
Zebra
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yaritza
Yaritza
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
A
R
I
T
Z
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
A
R
I
T
Z
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yaritza sounds like this:
