Meaning not yet researched.
Anita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 165 in 2025. Its best rank was #77 in 1963.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #77 in 1963; #1,342 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,342 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1963, at #77.
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Anita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 165 girls in 2025. Peak: #77 in 1963 · most girls in one year: 5,811 (1957).
In 2025, 165 US girls were named Anita, making it the 1,342nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 125 places from #1,467 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 149 girls named Anita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #77, reached in 1963. The most girls given the name in a single year was 5,811, in 1957. For comparison, it was #1,521 in 2015 and #99 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anita in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 16 babies with the name. In all, 215,849 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 47,698 babies named Anita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,655 US girls were named Anita; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 191. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,741 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anita ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #569 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nita (14,268 babies since 1880) and Anitra (4,379 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Annita, Anetta and Anahita are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Annita (1,376), Anetta (569), Anahita (492), Aneita (221), Inita (199), Anitha (123), Anitta (110), Anetha (99), Annitta (81), Anneta (60), Agnita (30), Enita (10), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Anita in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 8 | #569 | #854 |
| Oregon | 5 | #635 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #685 | #705 |
| California | 28 | #970 | #1,439 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,247 | #1,129 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,289 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,445 | #2,115 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,462 | #1,472 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,468 | #975 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,547 | #1,522 |
| New York | 7 | #1,670 | #1,021 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 165 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 2024 | 149 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 2023 | 155 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 2022 | 168 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 2021 | 154 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 2020 | 138 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 2019 | 191 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 2018 | 172 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 2017 | 188 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 2016 | 175 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 2015 | 148 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 2014 | 164 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 2012 | 151 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 2011 | 181 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 2010 | 174 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 2009 | 199 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 2008 | 238 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 2007 | 211 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 2006 | 212 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 2005 | 223 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 2004 | 266 | #908 | — | — |
| 2003 | 245 | #954 | — | — |
| 2002 | 266 | #863 | — | — |
| 2001 | 297 | #795 | — | — |
| 2000 | 314 | #736 | — | — |
| 1999 | 321 | #706 | — | — |
| 1998 | 351 | #657 | — | — |
| 1997 | 407 | #571 | — | — |
| 1996 | 394 | #581 | — | — |
| 1995 | 400 | #573 | — | — |
| 1994 | 438 | #552 | — | — |
| 1993 | 491 | #502 | — | — |
| 1992 | 547 | #454 | — | — |
| 1991 | 580 | #439 | — | — |
| 1990 | 642 | #404 | 6 | #7,222 |
| 1989 | 677 | #374 | 9 | #5,185 |
| 1988 | 718 | #344 | 5 | #7,337 |
| 1987 | 737 | #333 | 6 | #6,131 |
| 1986 | 745 | #323 | 5 | #6,772 |
| 1985 | 738 | #323 | 8 | #4,724 |
| 1984 | 863 | #280 | — | — |
| 1983 | 899 | #268 | 6 | #5,515 |
| 1982 | 1,010 | #248 | 5 | #6,416 |
| 1981 | 1,056 | #236 | 7 | #4,982 |
| 1980 | 1,151 | #223 | — | — |
| 1979 | 1,139 | #230 | 11 | #3,573 |
| 1978 | 1,221 | #210 | 8 | #4,168 |
| 1977 | 1,512 | #178 | 9 | #3,843 |
| 1976 | 1,508 | #167 | — | — |
| 1975 | 1,722 | #157 | 5 | #5,500 |
| 1974 | 1,936 | #144 | 10 | #3,333 |
| 1973 | 1,986 | #142 | 10 | #3,233 |
| 1972 | 2,230 | #136 | 9 | #3,357 |
| 1971 | 2,685 | #127 | 6 | #4,400 |
| 1970 | 2,895 | #127 | 13 | #2,624 |
| 1969 | 2,919 | #120 | 12 | #2,554 |
| 1968 | 3,047 | #109 | 14 | #2,202 |
| 1967 | 3,518 | #98 | 9 | #2,771 |
| 1966 | 3,872 | #88 | 9 | #2,793 |
| 1965 | 4,017 | #94 | 15 | #2,089 |
| 1964 | 4,909 | #85 | 13 | #2,313 |
| 1963 | 5,473 | #77 | 14 | #2,204 |
| 1962 | 5,521 | #81 | 17 | #1,965 |
| 1961 | 5,503 | #91 | 21 | #1,779 |
| 1960 | 5,637 | #87 | 16 | #2,043 |
| 1959 | 5,474 | #87 | 17 | #1,975 |
| 1958 | 5,774 | #82 | 12 | #2,376 |
| 1957 | 5,811 | #81 | 20 | #1,792 |
| 1956 | 5,505 | #83 | 13 | #2,264 |
| 1955 | 4,718 | #94 | 10 | #2,567 |
| 1954 | 4,408 | #96 | 11 | #2,457 |
| 1953 | 4,407 | #89 | 6 | #3,437 |
| 1952 | 4,134 | #91 | 8 | #2,882 |
| 1951 | 3,785 | #96 | 7 | #3,077 |
| 1950 | 3,572 | #99 | 6 | #3,341 |
| 1949 | 3,591 | #99 | 14 | #2,027 |
| 1948 | 3,615 | #102 | 11 | #2,329 |
| 1947 | 4,187 | #94 | 9 | #2,675 |
| 1946 | 4,027 | #84 | 16 | #1,816 |
| 1945 | 2,768 | #100 | 8 | #2,576 |
| 1944 | 2,825 | #95 | 6 | #3,121 |
| 1943 | 2,952 | #98 | 9 | #2,566 |
| 1942 | 2,998 | #93 | 10 | #2,389 |
| 1941 | 2,740 | #91 | 12 | #2,086 |
| 1940 | 2,828 | #87 | 20 | #1,520 |
| 1939 | 2,588 | #97 | 15 | #1,795 |
| 1938 | 2,636 | #99 | 8 | #2,658 |
| 1937 | 2,714 | #93 | 7 | #2,917 |
| 1936 | 2,304 | #104 | 15 | #1,803 |
| 1935 | 1,932 | #119 | 10 | #2,401 |
| 1934 | 1,784 | #130 | 7 | #2,984 |
| 1933 | 1,905 | #116 | 12 | #2,097 |
| 1932 | 2,098 | #116 | 14 | #2,000 |
| 1931 | 2,080 | #117 | 12 | #2,212 |
| 1930 | 2,183 | #115 | 11 | #2,453 |
| 1929 | 1,977 | #125 | 13 | #2,209 |
| 1928 | 1,725 | #137 | 9 | #2,853 |
| 1927 | 1,629 | #148 | 10 | #2,708 |
| 1926 | 1,617 | #150 | — | — |
| 1925 | 1,764 | #146 | — | — |
| 1924 | 1,853 | #142 | — | — |
| 1923 | 1,868 | #138 | 8 | #3,191 |
| 1922 | 1,761 | #141 | 7 | #3,547 |
| 1921 | 1,924 | #134 | 8 | #3,224 |
| 1920 | 1,934 | #131 | 7 | #3,505 |
| 1919 | 1,504 | #146 | — | — |
| 1918 | 1,482 | #151 | — | — |
| 1917 | 1,573 | #137 | 8 | #2,964 |
| 1916 | 1,339 | #151 | — | — |
| 1915 | 1,116 | #164 | — | — |
| 1914 | 720 | #186 | — | — |
| 1913 | 562 | #193 | — | — |
| 1912 | 540 | #182 | — | — |
| 1911 | 381 | #187 | — | — |
| 1910 | 338 | #195 | — | — |
| 1909 | 291 | #199 | — | — |
| 1908 | 277 | #202 | — | — |
| 1907 | 242 | #209 | — | — |
| 1906 | 215 | #211 | — | — |
| 1905 | 209 | #214 | — | — |
| 1904 | 190 | #220 | — | — |
| 1903 | 202 | #208 | — | — |
| 1902 | 163 | #238 | — | — |
| 1901 | 184 | #210 | — | — |
| 1900 | 176 | #242 | — | — |
| 1899 | 142 | #230 | — | — |
| 1898 | 198 | #207 | — | — |
| 1897 | 144 | #230 | — | — |
| 1896 | 139 | #234 | — | — |
| 1895 | 126 | #248 | — | — |
| 1894 | 107 | #266 | — | — |
| 1893 | 119 | #241 | — | — |
| 1892 | 82 | #299 | — | — |
| 1891 | 66 | #310 | — | — |
| 1890 | 68 | #301 | — | — |
| 1889 | 69 | #285 | — | — |
| 1888 | 59 | #311 | — | — |
| 1887 | 41 | #332 | — | — |
| 1886 | 40 | #338 | — | — |
| 1885 | 34 | #341 | — | — |
| 1884 | 36 | #326 | — | — |
| 1883 | 27 | #344 | — | — |
| 1882 | 20 | #407 | — | — |
| 1881 | 23 | #338 | — | — |
| 1880 | 16 | #423 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).