Meaning not yet researched.
Marnita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #727 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #727 in 1962; #14,320 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marnita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,320 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #727.
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Marnita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #727 in 1962 · most girls in one year: 202 (1962).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Marnita, making it the 14,320th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,541 places from #11,779 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 8 girls named Marnita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #727, reached in 1962. That year also had the most girls given the name: 202. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marnita in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 7 babies. In all, 820 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 473 babies named Marnita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 24 US girls were named Marnita; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Marnetta 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marnetta (59).
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 Marnita in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,320 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,779 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,835 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,136 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,270 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,477 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,098 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,846 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,758 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,952 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,030 | — | — |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,654 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,245 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,669 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,342 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,935 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,238 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,289 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,297 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,167 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,198 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,058 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,718 | — | — |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,798 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,765 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,172 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,138 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,859 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,621 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,927 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,132 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,167 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,502 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,382 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,295 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,240 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,655 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,619 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,239 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,997 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,105 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,779 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,918 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,670 | — | — |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,586 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1962 | 202 | #727 | — | — |
| 1961 | 145 | #898 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,835 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,547 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,614 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,988 | — | — |
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).