Damita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Damita has been given to 1,507 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1961, with 118 recorded.
Babies named Damita, 2010
1 in 616,000
Damita over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Damita?
Damita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 616,000
- 6 of 3,695,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 296,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,971 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Damita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Damita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Damitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Damita was born before 1967 — so the typical Damita is around 58 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 45.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 13.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,507
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 45.7% of all recorded uses (689).
Is Damita 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1961 (118)
- Years since peak
- 64
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.6% average annual change
Spellings of Damita
Damita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 29.9% against Damita's 0.21%.
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.
Where Damita is used
Across 1910–2025, Damita was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 328,533 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Damita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Damita around the world
Where Damita ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2004–2004#4,598in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Damita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Damita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Damita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.