Meaning not yet researched.
Nita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #432 in 1895.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #432 in 1895; #12,827 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,827 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1895, at #432.
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Nita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #432 in 1895 · most girls in one year: 403 (1956).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Nita, making it the 12,827th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,771 places from #10,056 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 10 girls named Nita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #432, reached in 1895. The most girls given the name in a single year was 403, in 1956. For comparison, it was #8,811 in 2015 and #524 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nita in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 7 babies. In all, 14,268 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 3,451 babies named Nita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 104 US girls were named Nita; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anita (215,849 babies since 1880) and Neta (3,226 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Neita, Netha and Neeta 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Neita (635), Netha (224), Neeta (124), Nyota (120), Nitai (67), Nitaya (15), Nieta (6), Neata (5).
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 Nita in the open dataset we use.
Nita is listed as a nickname for Juanita.
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 | 7 | #12,827 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,056 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,544 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,087 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,014 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,868 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,248 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,483 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,191 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,277 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,811 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,964 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,929 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,237 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,433 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,571 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,347 | — | — |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,013 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,267 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,425 | — | — |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,806 | — | — |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,124 | — | — |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,483 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,343 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,009 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,152 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,083 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,611 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,089 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,353 | — | — |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,184 | — | — |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,977 | — | — |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,208 | — | — |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,054 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,904 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,219 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,328 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,791 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,782 | — | — |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 1978 | 54 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1976 | 71 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1974 | 62 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1973 | 95 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1972 | 99 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1971 | 86 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1970 | 107 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1969 | 125 | #958 | — | — |
| 1968 | 120 | #949 | — | — |
| 1967 | 149 | #819 | — | — |
| 1966 | 152 | #810 | — | — |
| 1965 | 159 | #786 | — | — |
| 1964 | 205 | #725 | — | — |
| 1963 | 267 | #619 | — | — |
| 1962 | 271 | #609 | — | — |
| 1961 | 276 | #609 | — | — |
| 1960 | 310 | #556 | — | — |
| 1959 | 325 | #541 | — | — |
| 1958 | 359 | #509 | — | — |
| 1957 | 367 | #493 | — | — |
| 1956 | 403 | #461 | — | — |
| 1955 | 396 | #453 | — | — |
| 1954 | 389 | #446 | — | — |
| 1953 | 339 | #461 | — | — |
| 1952 | 344 | #457 | — | — |
| 1951 | 283 | #488 | — | — |
| 1950 | 246 | #524 | — | — |
| 1949 | 256 | #511 | — | — |
| 1948 | 265 | #502 | — | — |
| 1947 | 263 | #510 | — | — |
| 1946 | 253 | #489 | — | — |
| 1945 | 230 | #475 | — | — |
| 1944 | 211 | #497 | — | — |
| 1943 | 265 | #455 | — | — |
| 1942 | 240 | #476 | — | — |
| 1941 | 220 | #473 | — | — |
| 1940 | 174 | #520 | — | — |
| 1939 | 174 | #509 | — | — |
| 1938 | 174 | #506 | — | — |
| 1937 | 175 | #500 | — | — |
| 1936 | 167 | #501 | — | — |
| 1935 | 166 | #490 | — | — |
| 1934 | 174 | #489 | — | — |
| 1933 | 164 | #500 | — | — |
| 1932 | 190 | #480 | — | — |
| 1931 | 170 | #494 | — | — |
| 1930 | 174 | #508 | — | — |
| 1929 | 139 | #584 | — | — |
| 1928 | 170 | #537 | — | — |
| 1927 | 177 | #536 | — | — |
| 1926 | 164 | #552 | — | — |
| 1925 | 182 | #531 | — | — |
| 1924 | 155 | #594 | — | — |
| 1923 | 152 | #585 | — | — |
| 1922 | 111 | #698 | — | — |
| 1921 | 111 | #706 | — | — |
| 1920 | 122 | #656 | — | — |
| 1919 | 109 | #671 | — | — |
| 1918 | 134 | #609 | — | — |
| 1917 | 91 | #737 | — | — |
| 1916 | 108 | #657 | — | — |
| 1915 | 114 | #614 | — | — |
| 1914 | 69 | #697 | — | — |
| 1913 | 52 | #735 | — | — |
| 1912 | 70 | #580 | — | — |
| 1911 | 42 | #672 | — | — |
| 1910 | 49 | #600 | — | — |
| 1909 | 43 | #591 | — | — |
| 1908 | 40 | #600 | — | — |
| 1907 | 36 | #629 | — | — |
| 1906 | 31 | #659 | — | — |
| 1905 | 40 | #553 | — | — |
| 1904 | 40 | #526 | — | — |
| 1903 | 30 | #603 | — | — |
| 1902 | 30 | #610 | — | — |
| 1901 | 25 | #643 | — | — |
| 1900 | 29 | #669 | — | — |
| 1899 | 22 | #673 | — | — |
| 1898 | 23 | #691 | — | — |
| 1897 | 21 | #694 | — | — |
| 1896 | 31 | #544 | — | — |
| 1895 | 44 | #432 | — | — |
| 1894 | 35 | #484 | — | — |
| 1893 | 28 | #530 | — | — |
| 1892 | 28 | #523 | — | — |
| 1891 | 27 | #504 | — | — |
| 1890 | 20 | #594 | — | — |
| 1889 | 12 | #786 | — | — |
| 1888 | 18 | #605 | — | — |
| 1887 | 13 | #653 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #965 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,015 | — | — |
| 1884 | 15 | #554 | — | — |
| 1883 | 9 | #679 | — | — |
| 1882 | 8 | #720 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #727 | — | — |
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).