Larita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Larita has been given to 1,649 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1957, with 79 recorded.
Babies named Larita, 2015
1 in 740,000
Larita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Larita?
Larita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 740,000
- 5 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,148 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Larita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Larita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Laritas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Larita was born before 1961 — so the typical Larita is around 64 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 22.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,242
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (364).
Is Larita 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1957 (79)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.1% average annual change
Spellings of Larita
Larita is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 33.3% against Larita's 0.10%.
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 Larita is used
Across 1910–2025, Larita was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 610,380 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Kansas1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8Mississippi1 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. Larita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Larita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Larita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Larita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.