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Sarita

#6,280 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Sarita has been given to 5,046 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #6,280 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1965, with 166 recorded.

Babies named Sarita, 2025

1 in 174,000

Sarita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sarita: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Sanskrit

What Sarita means

Sarita has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Sarita

A separate documented entry treats Sarita as a diminutive of Sara. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Sarita records a meaning of flowing.

Origin, language, and formation

Sarita is used in English, Faroese, Finnish and Spanish. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sari and Sara.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Sarita is pronounced /ˈsɑritɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,046 girls were recorded with the name Sarita between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 166 in 1965; its best national rank was #770 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,286 in 2020 to #6,280 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,682 in 2015 to #6,280 in 2025.

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 Sarita?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,280
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sarita 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 2025 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sarita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saritas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sarita was born before 1975 — so the typical Sarita is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,555
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (1,019).

Is Sarita 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
−697
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−994
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+402
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.4%
Peak was 1965 (166)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#770
1965

Spellings of Sarita

Sarita is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 25.6% against Sarita's 0.23%.

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 Sarita is used

Across 1910–2025, Sarita was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 54,679 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

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

Sarita around the world

Where Sarita 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1965–2008
    #5,447
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Sarita

People whose public names include Sarita, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sarita by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,280
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 994
Best rank ever
#770
1965
Peak year
1965
166 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,046
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Sarita

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

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Names with a curve like Sarita

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sarita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sarita

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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