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Karita

Girls' name

Possibly love, through Carita

Karita has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 1981, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Karita, 2005

1 in 769,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karita: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly love, through Carita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karita means

Karita belongs to the name family reached through Karita → Carita. Its meaning is “love”.

Origin, language, and formation

Karita is used in Faroese, Finnish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carita.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Karita is pronounced /ˈkɑritɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 197 girls were recorded with the name Karita between 1958 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1981; its best national rank was #4,416 in 1981.

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 Karita?

Karita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karita 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karita was born before 1982 — so the typical Karita is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
197
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (93).

Is Karita 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (17)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,416
1981

Spellings of Karita

Karita is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 26.3% against Karita'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 Karita is used

Across 1910–2025, Karita was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 687,417 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 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. Karita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karita around the world

Where Karita 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
    1988–1988
    #657
    in 1988

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

Karita 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
#4,416
1981
Peak year
1981
17 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
197
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karita

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

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Sibling names for Karita

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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