Marnita
#14,316 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marnita has been given to 820 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #14,316 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 202 recorded.
Babies named Marnita, 2025
1 in 553,000
Marnita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marnita?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,316
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marnita sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marnita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marnitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marnita was born before 1964 — so the typical Marnita is around 61 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 57.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 12.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 813
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 57.7% of all recorded uses (473).
Is Marnita 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
- −2,542
- Places dropped
- 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
- 3.0%
- Peak was 1962 (202)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.3% average annual change
Spellings of Marnita
Marnita is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 48.7% against Marnita's 0.07%.
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 Marnita is used
Across 1910–2025, Marnita was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 387,304 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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. Marnita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marnita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marnita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marnita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.