Anita
Anita is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 149 births. Its best rank was 77th, in 1963.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1490.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19575,811 births
- Best rank
- #77in 1963
- Since 1880
- 214,999people given the name
The story in the numbers
214,999 girls have been named Anita in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 5,811 births — 0.28% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 149 births in 2024, against 5,811 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 22%. It has spent 125 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 30 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Anita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 365 | |
| 1890s | 1,191 | |
| 1900s | 2,149 | |
| 1910s | 9,555 | |
| 1920s | 18,052 | |
| 1930s | 22,224 | |
| 1940s | 32,530 | |
| 1950s | 47,591 | |
| 1960s | 44,415 | |
| 1970s | 18,834 | |
| 1980s | 8,595 | |
| 1990s | 4,571 | |
| 2000s | 2,471 | |
| 2010s | 1,695 | |
| 2020s | 761 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Anita was the 81st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Anita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lornapeak 1957
- Vernitapeak 1961
- Arnettapeak 1953
- Vandapeak 1960
- Arnettepeak 1959
- Venitapeak 1960
- Rosalindpeak 1965
- Bernadettepeak 1958
Other spellings in the data
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.