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Sita

#11,791 in 2025Girls' name

Furrow

Sita has been given to 482 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #11,791 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Sita, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sita: meaning, origin, and history

Furrow

Sanskrit

What Sita means

Sita means “furrow”, associated with sītā.

Origin, language, and formation

Sita is used in English, Cebuano and Sandawe. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Sita comes through Sanskrit सीता.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rosita and Teresita.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Sita is pronounced /ˈsiːtə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 482 girls were recorded with the name Sita between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1980; its best national rank was #4,486 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,882 in 2020 to #11,791 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,708 in 2015 to #11,791 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 Sita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,791
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sita 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sita was born before 1996 — so the typical Sita is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
482
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (91).

Is Sita 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
−2,914
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,909
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−83
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.1%
Peak was 1980 (17)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
63.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,486
1980

Spellings of Sita

Sita is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 24.1% against Sita'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 Sita is used

Across 1910–2025, Sita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,287,539 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Sita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sita around the world

Where Sita 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2025
    #2,786
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1971–1982
    #670
    in 1982

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

Sita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,791
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,909
Best rank ever
#4,486
1980
Peak year
1980
17 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
482
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Sita

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

GitaSitaraItaAnvitaEvitaIshitaZitaTitaKavitaAmitaTalitaElitaLitaVitaAmritaKitaAnahitaNeitaLeitaSamhitaAlitaSitharaGhitaBita

Sibling names for Sita

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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