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Denita

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Denita has been given to 2,750 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 1966, with 114 recorded.

Babies named Denita, 2019

1 in 694,000

Denita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Denita: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Denita means

Denita is a given name.

The naming story behind Denita

Wikidata records Denita as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q120609351, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,750 girls were recorded with the name Denita between 1948 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 114 in 1966; its best national rank was #952 in 1966.

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.

How common is Denita?

Denita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Denita 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Denita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Denitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Denita was born before 1970 — so the typical Denita is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
36.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,739
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1960s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (991).

Is Denita 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 1966 (114)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#952
1966

Spellings of Denita

Denita is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 40.2% against Denita's 0.30%.

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 Denita is used

Across 1910–2025, Denita was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 140,577 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 50,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

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. Denita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Denita around the world

Where Denita 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.

  • South Australia
    1963–1984
    #661
    in 1984

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Denita 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
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Best rank ever
#952
1966
Peak year
1966
114 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
2,750
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Denita

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

DenaliDenverDenaeDenniseDennisJovitaDeneenDeniaLanitaDenimJanitaDenisseDeneseDenizSaritaMaritaDenisDenyseLupitaAlitaRositaDennaAmritaDenisa

Names with a curve like Denita

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Denita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BethannTammaraKelleShaunHeideDeedraDedraKimberelyTanjaGregoryReneaKimberlie

Sibling names for Denita

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

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