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Gita

#12,343 in 2025Girls' name

Song

Gita has been given to 508 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #12,343 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Gita, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gita: meaning, origin, and history

Song

Sanskrit

What Gita means

Gita means “song”, associated with gītā.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit गीता (gītā, “song”), sometimes in reference to Bhagavad Gita.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Gita (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Gita is used in English, Czech, Estonian and Latvian. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Brigita and Birgit.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Gita is pronounced [ˈɡɪta].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 508 girls were recorded with the name Gita between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1970; its best national rank was #2,969 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,605 in 2020 to #12,343 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,701 in 2015 to #12,343 in 2025.

How common is Gita?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,343
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gita 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gita was born before 1980 — so the typical Gita is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
503
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (106).

Is Gita 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
−896
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+262
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,642
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.4%
Peak was 1970 (23)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,969
1970

Spellings of Gita

Gita is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 27.5% against Gita's 0.01%.

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 Gita is used

Across 1910–2025, Gita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 890,726 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Gita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gita around the world

Where Gita 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1927–1973
    #2,336
    in 1973
  • South Australia
    1967–1971
    #724
    in 1971

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,343
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 262
Best rank ever
#2,969
1970
Peak year
1970
23 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
508
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Gita

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

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Sibling names for Gita

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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