Cita

Girls' name

Diminutive of Pacita

Cita has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Cita, 1979

1 in 665,000

Cita over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cita: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Pacita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cita means

Cita is a diminutive of Pacita.

Origin, language, and formation

Cita is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pacita.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Cita between 1972 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1972; its best national rank was #8,497 in 1972.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cita?

Cita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979: 1 in 665,000; 5 of 3,326,731 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1979: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 461,184 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Cita sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1979 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Citas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cita was born before 1972 — so the typical Cita is around 53 today.

Median birth year: 1972; About 53 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Cita rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1972 (5)
Years since peak: 53; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #8,497; 1972

Spellings of Cita

Cita is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 26.0% against Cita's <0.01%.

Lisa26.0%967,229
Mia8.3%310,219
Tina7.9%292,146
Rita7.7%284,452
Anita5.8%215,165
Ida5.1%187,929
Cora4.2%156,028
Gina4.1%153,057

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Cita by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,497; 1972
Peak year: 1972; 5 that year
First recorded: 1972
Last recorded: 1979
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Cita

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Enita Dita Azita Citori Orita Mwavita Ajita Maita Frita Pita Citali Nelita Zorita Cynita Tyrita Yita Ghita Babita Yanita Hasita Irita Lovita Canita Kinita

Sibling names for Cita

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Nicola Latonia Jenni Nicki Sharla Niki Trena Melonie

For a brother

Shon Shelton Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Demond Scottie

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