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Larita

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Larita is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
195779 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1919
1,649people given the name
Babies named Larita, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,649 girls have been named Larita in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 79 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 79 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1950s alone account for 22%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Larita
1910s6
1920s40
1930s165
1940s196
1950s364
1960s307
1970s267
1980s218
1990s76
2000s5
2010s5

In 1957, its biggest year

Larita was outside the top 1,000 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 Larita

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.