How popular is the name Nita?

Nita ranks 1,138th among girls' names in US records, with 14,261 births since 1881. Over the past decade it accounts for 110.

Is Nita a unisex name?

No. Nita is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1956, when 403 children were given the name. It has been in use for 144 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,138 of girl names

Pronounced N IY1 T AH0 (ARPABET)

Nita is a girls' name, and first appears in 1881. It has been given to 14,261 children — the 1,138th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 110 births across the past decade, against a peak of 403 in a single year. That peak was in 1956.

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Nita is itself a short form of Anita and Juanita.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Nita?: Nita ranks 1,138th among girls' names in US records, with 14,261 births since 1881. Over the past decade it accounts for 110.
Is Nita a unisex name?: No. Nita is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Nita most popular?: 1956, when 403 children were given the name. It has been in use for 144 years and is still recorded as of 2024.