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Pita

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English equivalent of Peter

Pita has been given to 54 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1924, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% girls, 20% boys all-time.

Babies named Pita, 1949

1 in 697,000

Pita over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Pita over time

In 2007, Pita went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19222007

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Pita: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Peter

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pita means

Pita is a English equivalent of Peter.

Origin, language, and formation

Pita is used in 'Are'are and Māori.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Peter.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 girls were recorded with the name Pita between 1922 and 1949. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1924; its best national rank was #4,235 in 1938.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Pita between 2003 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2007; its best national rank was #11,991 in 2007.

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 Pita?

Pita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1949, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1949
1 in 697,000
5 of 3,484,085 births
Among girls only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1949
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
482,998 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pita 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 1949 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 482,998 children born in 1949 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pita was born before 1925 — so the typical Pita is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
62.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 62.8% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Pita 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1924 (6)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
5.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,235
1938

Spellings of Pita

Pita is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 27.6% against Pita'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 Pita is used

Across 1910–2025, Pita was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 30,690 across all states with data.

33 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 33,333

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

Pita around the world

Where Pita 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.

  • France
    2014–2014
    #5,661
    in 2014

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Pita 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
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Best rank ever
#4,235
1938
Peak year
1924
6 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
1949
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,991
2007
Peak year
2007
6 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pita

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

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Sibling names for Pita

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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