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Rita Name Popularity

How popular is the name Rita? Here’s everything we know.

Year Rank # Births % Births
1910 — 284 0.0807%
1911 — 359 0.0964%
1912 — 583 0.1156%
1913 — 1,053 0.1857%
1914 — 1,984 0.2847%
1915 — 3,048 0.3355%
1916 — 3,461 0.3583%
1917 — 3,849 0.3847%
1918 — 4,429 0.4127%
1919 — 4,509 0.4306%
1920 — 4,973 0.4473%
1921 — 5,156 0.4503%
1922 — 4,966 0.4457%
1923 — 5,081 0.4536%
1924 — 5,374 0.4628%
1925 — 5,314 0.4701%
1926 — 5,003 0.4549%
1927 — 5,079 0.4588%
1928 — 4,793 0.448%
1929 — 4,753 0.4589%
1930 — 5,460 0.5227%
1931 — 4,607 0.4668%
1932 — 4,251 0.4303%
1933 — 3,831 0.4112%
1934 — 3,678 0.3805%
1935 — 3,570 0.3674%
1936 — 3,327 0.3454%
1937 — 3,415 0.3466%
1938 — 3,345 0.3267%
1939 — 3,181 0.3127%
1940 — 3,431 0.3228%
1941 — 3,876 0.3444%
1942 — 4,701 0.3723%
1943 — 5,004 0.3833%
1944 — 4,523 0.3649%
1945 — 4,268 0.35%
1946 — 5,529 0.3747%
1947 — 5,975 0.3579%
1948 — 5,835 0.3655%
1949 — 6,652 0.4135%
1950 — 6,424 0.399%
1951 — 6,413 0.3782%
1952 — 6,145 0.352%
1953 — 6,274 0.3545%
1954 — 6,538 0.3577%
1955 — 6,090 0.3311%
1956 — 6,049 0.3203%
1957 — 6,016 0.3126%
1958 — 5,335 0.2823%
1959 — 4,950 0.2605%
1960 — 5,029 0.2654%
1961 — 4,523 0.2396%
1962 — 4,099 0.2233%
1963 — 3,793 0.2113%
1964 — 3,453 0.1962%
1965 — 3,052 0.1866%
1966 — 2,674 0.1713%
1967 — 2,359 0.1554%
1968 — 2,049 0.1365%
1969 — 1,705 0.1107%
1970 — 1,561 0.0981%
1971 — 1,385 0.0922%
1972 — 1,178 0.0865%
1973 — 1,001 0.0772%
1974 — 961 0.0739%
1975 — 845 0.0658%
1976 — 823 0.0639%
1977 — 768 0.057%
1978 — 859 0.0639%
1979 — 846 0.06%
1980 — 806 0.0551%
1981 — 831 0.0565%
1982 — 668 0.0447%
1983 — 568 0.0385%
1984 — 567 0.0381%
1985 — 537 0.0354%
1986 — 507 0.0336%
1987 — 457 0.0299%
1988 — 426 0.0273%
1989 — 372 0.0231%
1990 — 378 0.0228%
1991 — 369 0.0226%
1992 — 344 0.0216%
1993 — 295 0.0189%
1994 — 263 0.0171%
1995 — 246 0.0163%
1996 — 261 0.0174%
1997 — 194 0.0131%
1998 — 195 0.013%
1999 — 183 0.0122%
2000 — 183 0.012%
2001 — 214 0.0142%
2002 — 193 0.0129%
2003 — 148 0.0097%
2004 — 157 0.0103%
2005 — 152 0.0099%
2006 — 156 0.01%
2007 — 155 0.0098%
2008 — 128 0.0083%
2009 — 116 0.0078%
2010 — 128 0.0089%
2011 — 108 0.0076%
2012 — 117 0.0082%
2013 — 128 0.009%
2014 — 121 0.0083%
2015 — 138 0.0095%
2016 — 167 0.0116%
2017 — 144 0.0103%
2018 — 117 0.0085%
2019 — 108 0.008%
2020 — 125 0.0098%
2021 — 80 0.0065%
2022 — 146 0.0111%
2023 — 91 0.007%

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Names Like Rita

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What names are variants of Rita?

Mix it up with these names that are a variation of the name Rita.

Name Meaning Origin Popularity Other Gender
Reeta
Reita
Rheeta
Rida

Veil

Arabic

Riet
Rieta
Ritta

What names sound like Rita?

If you like how Rita sounds, you might also like these names that sound like Rita.

Name Meaning Origin Popularity Other Gender
Reda
Reida

Red-haired

English

Retha

Excellence; righteous

Greek

Retta

Speaker

Latin

Rheta

Speaker

Latin

Roda

Rose; from Rhodes

Latin

Ruta

Regret

English

Ruth

Friend

Hebrew

What names are similar to Rita?

Find a name that’s like Rita, but just a little bit different.

Name Meaning Origin Popularity Other Gender
Alvarita
Reta

Greek

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4 Comments

  1. I used to hate my name growing up but learned to love it! ??

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  2. I wish my first daughter I will call her Rita this is because of a woman that i saw and read her story
    Who is St Rita of cassior from Italia that st is bressed i love her Name

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  3. is a saint name

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  4. I wanted something classic, but not old-fashioned sounding, that was easy to spell and pronounce in Spanish, English, and Kriol. It was also a family name, but that wasn’t an important criteria to us from the outset.

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