Zita
Zita is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 685th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192269 births
- Best rank
- #685in 1884
- Since 1882
- 2,961people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,961 girls have been named Zita in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 69 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Zita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 42 | |
| 1890s | 117 | |
| 1900s | 164 | |
| 1910s | 403 | |
| 1920s | 544 | |
| 1930s | 368 | |
| 1940s | 240 | |
| 1950s | 292 | |
| 1960s | 196 | |
| 1970s | 164 | |
| 1980s | 65 | |
| 1990s | 71 | |
| 2000s | 100 | |
| 2010s | 130 | |
| 2020s | 65 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Zita was the 887th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Zita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nevapeak 1920
- Mariepeak 1920
- Fredapeak 1918
- Laurettapeak 1915
- Elvirapeak 1920
- Vernapeak 1918
- Eldapeak 1916
- Irmapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.