Meaning not yet researched.
Zita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #685 in 1884.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #685 in 1884; #7,130 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,130 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1884, at #685.
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Zita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #685 in 1884 · most girls in one year: 69 (1922).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Zita, making it the 7,130th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,418 places from #9,548 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 11 girls named Zita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #685, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 69, in 1922. For comparison, it was #8,928 in 2015 and #2,052 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zita in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 6 babies. In all, 2,977 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 544 babies named Zita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 141 US girls were named Zita; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Zetta, Zeta and Sita 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 Hungarian, Italian, Latvian and Portuguese. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zetta (2,058), Zeta (1,354), Sita (482), Zetha (64), Seta (20), Sitha (13), Cita (10).
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 Zita 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 | 16 | #7,130 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,548 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,188 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,538 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,411 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,965 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,712 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,098 | — | — |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,836 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,866 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,928 | — | — |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,203 | — | — |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,991 | — | — |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,466 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,368 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,945 | — | — |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,452 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,392 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,918 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,279 | — | — |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,889 | — | — |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,260 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,420 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,346 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,579 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,941 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,154 | — | — |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,799 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,764 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,585 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,556 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,606 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,586 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,877 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,759 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,833 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,504 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,807 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,070 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,910 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,322 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,177 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,695 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,562 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,441 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,212 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,585 | — | — |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,176 | — | — |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,873 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,608 | — | — |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,844 | — | — |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,738 | — | — |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,368 | — | — |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,073 | — | — |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,093 | — | — |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1944 | 19 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1938 | 35 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1934 | 32 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1933 | 52 | #956 | — | — |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1931 | 44 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1930 | 52 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1929 | 51 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1927 | 59 | #999 | — | — |
| 1926 | 46 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1925 | 54 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1924 | 47 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1923 | 61 | #951 | — | — |
| 1922 | 69 | #887 | — | — |
| 1921 | 67 | #913 | — | — |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1919 | 49 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1918 | 65 | #893 | — | — |
| 1917 | 65 | #858 | — | — |
| 1916 | 57 | #903 | — | — |
| 1915 | 56 | #884 | — | — |
| 1914 | 41 | #931 | — | — |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1908 | 23 | #827 | — | — |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1906 | 16 | #964 | — | — |
| 1905 | 17 | #925 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 1903 | 17 | #861 | — | — |
| 1902 | 14 | #971 | — | — |
| 1901 | 17 | #828 | — | — |
| 1900 | 20 | #859 | — | — |
| 1899 | 12 | #982 | — | — |
| 1898 | 18 | #820 | — | — |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1896 | 14 | #902 | — | — |
| 1895 | 14 | #892 | — | — |
| 1894 | 14 | #849 | — | — |
| 1893 | 10 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1892 | 11 | #957 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1889 | 14 | #722 | — | — |
| 1887 | 11 | #732 | — | — |
| 1884 | 11 | #685 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #907 | — | — |
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).