In 2025, 32 US girls were named Vita, making it the 4,454th most common girls’ name of the year, down 884 places from #3,570 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 44 girls named Vita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #796, reached in 1929. The most girls given the name in a single year was 84, in 1921. For comparison, it was #4,718 in 2015 and #1,211 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vita in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 6 babies. In all, 4,591 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 726 babies named Vita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 329 US girls were named Vita; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Veta, Vietta and Vetta are summarised on this page.
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