Alita

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Alita is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 91 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 910.01% of girls
Peak year: 2020181 births
Best rank: —never in the top 1,000
Since 1914: 2,527people given the name

Babies named Alita, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

2,527 girls have been named Alita in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 181 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 2020s alone account for 24%.

By decade

Decade	girls named Alita
1910s	42
1920s	94
1930s	87
1940s	125
1950s	223
1960s	275
1970s	245
1980s	202
1990s	142
2000s	193
2010s	291
2020s	608

In 2020, its biggest year

Alita was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2020 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Charlotte and Sophia. See all of 2020.

Names that rose and fell with Alita

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.