Inita

Girls' name

From Latin inita; literal meaning unconfirmed

Inita has been given to 199 babies in the U.S. since 1926. 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 1956, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Inita, 1983

1 in 693,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Inita: meaning, origin, and history

From Latin inita; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Inita means

Inita is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Inita is used in Latvian.

Inita comes through Latin inita.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 199 girls were recorded with the name Inita between 1926 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1956; its best national rank was #3,152 in 1926.

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 Inita?

Inita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983: 1 in 693,000; 5 of 3,463,011 births
Among girls only: 1 in 334,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1983: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 480,076 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Inita 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 1983 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 480,076 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Inita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Initas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Inita was born before 1958 — so the typical Inita is around 67 today.

Median birth year: 1958; About 67 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 46.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 142; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Inita 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 1956 (14)
Years since peak: 69; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,152; 1926

Spellings of Inita

Inita is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 29.3% against Inita's 0.02%.

Rita29.3%284,452
Anita22.2%215,165
Nina13.8%133,788
Bonita3.9%37,842
Ina3.5%34,074
Nia2.6%25,422
India2.5%23,990
Aniya1.9%18,085

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.

Inita 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: #3,152; 1926
Peak year: 1956; 14 that year
First recorded: 1926
Last recorded: 1983
All-time count: 199
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Inita

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

Iniya Inice Iniyah Inika Ghita Inioluwa Talita Keita Arita Aelita Iniki Akita Azita Anvita Olita Quita Sita Smita Gita Evita Ishita Armita Inis Karita

Sibling names for Inita

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

Meryl Roxane Teena Cathrine Doretha Sherie Evonne Romona

For a brother

Hayward Burt Fritz Leigh Kennith Lonny Eddy Jeffry

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