Lita
Lita is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 698th, in 1927.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1960135 births
- Best rank
- #698in 1927
- Since 1888
- 4,427people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,427 girls have been named Lita in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 135 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 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 18%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 45 | |
| 1910s | 162 | |
| 1920s | 439 | |
| 1930s | 555 | |
| 1940s | 331 | |
| 1950s | 779 | |
| 1960s | 674 | |
| 1970s | 238 | |
| 1980s | 206 | |
| 1990s | 257 | |
| 2000s | 427 | |
| 2010s | 200 | |
| 2020s | 98 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Lita was the 911th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Lita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ramonapeak 1928
- Nadinepeak 1958
- Darlinepeak 1927
- Theresepeak 1959
- Ofeliapeak 1929
- Carmapeak 1961
- Twilapeak 1960
- Roslynpeak 1956
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.