Entry № 6526 · Spanish origin

Mariposa Mariposa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-ree-POH-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Butterfly"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "butterfly".

Mariposa is from the Spanish Mariposa — butterfly. Mariposa is one of the Spanish + Latin American feminine names — central to traditional Hispanic heritage. Spanish feminine name.

Butterfly — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Mariposa
Transliteration
Mariposa
Pronunciation
/ mɑːriːˈpoʊ.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mariposa stands.

Mariposa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mariposas before her.

Real people
Las Mariposas (Mirabal sisters)
Dominican Republic anti-Trujillo activists + assassinated November 25 1960.
Martyred 1960
In fiction
Mariposa
Spanish butterfly + Mirabal sisters legacy.

Names connected to Mariposa.

The number behind Mariposa.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mariposa reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.