Lita
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · girls
- 1927 · 109 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,437since 1888
Lita over time
Rank among girls' names. Lita has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 |
| 2022 | #4,793 | 28 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 |
| 2005 | #2,670 | 63 |
| 2004 | #2,781 | 58 |
| 2003 | #2,885 | 53 |
| 2002 | #2,745 | 55 |
| 2001 | #2,075 | 80 |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 |
| 1992 | #3,581 | 30 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 38 |
| 1990 | #2,345 | 53 |
| 1989 | #2,371 | 49 |
| 1988 | #2,803 | 37 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 |
| 1975 | #2,516 | 31 |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 |
| 1973 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1972 | #2,523 | 28 |
| 1971 | #2,107 | 39 |
| 1970 | #2,267 | 34 |
| 1969 | #2,171 | 34 |
| 1968 | #2,024 | 35 |
| 1967 | #1,821 | 41 |
| 1966 | #1,632 | 47 |
| 1965 | #1,437 | 59 |
| 1964 | #1,319 | 72 |
| 1963 | #1,211 | 82 |
| 1962 | #1,234 | 79 |
| 1961 | #1,162 | 90 |
| 1960 | #909 | 135 |
| 1959 | #1,075 | 99 |
| 1958 | #1,018 | 104 |
| 1957 | #981 | 112 |
| 1956 | #1,100 | 88 |
| 1955 | #1,026 | 96 |
| 1954 | #1,140 | 75 |
| 1953 | #1,199 | 65 |
| 1952 | #1,256 | 57 |
| 1951 | #1,583 | 36 |
| 1950 | #1,333 | 47 |
| 1949 | #1,289 | 50 |
| 1948 | #1,473 | 39 |
| 1947 | #1,545 | 37 |
| 1946 | #2,024 | 21 |
| 1945 | #1,232 | 42 |
| 1944 | #1,486 | 30 |
| 1943 | #1,556 | 29 |
| 1942 | #1,860 | 21 |
| 1941 | #1,355 | 32 |
| 1940 | #1,374 | 30 |
| 1939 | #1,327 | 31 |
| 1938 | #1,219 | 36 |
| 1937 | #950 | 53 |
| 1936 | #979 | 49 |
| 1935 | #1,073 | 42 |
| 1934 | #993 | 48 |
| 1933 | #845 | 63 |
| 1932 | #790 | 74 |
| 1931 | #728 | 85 |
| 1930 | #824 | 74 |
| 1929 | #932 | 59 |
| 1928 | #936 | 63 |
| 1927 | #696 | 109 |
| 1926 | #1,148 | 44 |
| 1925 | #1,196 | 42 |
| 1924 | #1,475 | 32 |
| 1923 | #1,782 | 23 |
| 1922 | #2,186 | 17 |
| 1921 | #1,543 | 29 |
| 1920 | #1,889 | 21 |
| 1919 | #1,989 | 18 |
| 1918 | #1,690 | 23 |
| 1917 | #1,652 | 22 |
| 1916 | #2,028 | 16 |
| 1915 | #1,475 | 24 |
| 1914 | #2,125 | 11 |
| 1913 | #1,308 | 19 |
| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 |
| 1911 | #1,792 | 8 |
| 1910 | #1,207 | 14 |
| 1909 | #1,763 | 7 |
| 1908 | #1,439 | 9 |
| 1907 | #2,061 | 5 |
| 1906 | #1,229 | 10 |
| 1905 | #1,538 | 7 |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,440 | 7 |
| 1902 | — | |
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| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 |
| 1892 | — | |
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| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #1,279 | 5 |
| 1888 | #1,136 | 6 |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Lita! It came in at #1,136, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1902, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lita is popular in 1937
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#441 · 1 in 6,962
- California#511 · 1 in 5,799
Best ever in a state: #128 in New Mexico, 1915.
Show every state
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| New York | #441 | 12 | 1 in 6,962 |
| California | #511 | 7 | 1 in 5,799 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lita
- 1,490 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #9,457)
- 3,374 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #9,457)
- 1,449 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #9,457)
- Biggest jump: 452 spots in 1927 (#1,148 → #696)
- Biggest drop: 269 spots in 1938 (#950 → #1,219)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1927 at #696 (109 births)
- Births halved by 1934, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1927–1934
- Highest: 1 in 10,940 girls born in 1927 were named Lita (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 17.6% of all girls named Lita (779) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | #1,136 (1888) | #1,208 |
| 1890s | 5 | #1,437 (1893) | #1,437 |
| 1900s | 45 | #1,229 (1906) | #1,578 |
| 1910s | 162 | #1,207 (1910) | #1,763 |
| 1920s | 439 | #696 (1927) | #1,378 |
| 1930s | 555 | #728 (1931) | #973 |
| 1940s | 331 | #1,232 (1945) | #1,519 |
| 1950s | 779 | #981 (1957) | #1,171 |
| 1960s | 674 | #909 (1960) | #1,492 |
| 1970s | 238 | #2,107 (1971) | #3,393 |
| 1980s | 206 | #2,371 (1989) | #4,396 |
| 1990s | 257 | #2,345 (1990) | #4,770 |
| 2000s | 427 | #2,075 (2001) | #4,294 |
| 2010s | 200 | #4,477 (2017) | #6,690 |
| 2020s | 108 | #4,793 (2022) | #6,824 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lita in 1937
Top girls' names in 1937
More about 1937
girls
1,064,033 girls got a published name in 1937; 1 in 20,076 of them was named Lita, which outranked 80.7% of the 4,930 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).