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Smita

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Smita has been given to 134 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1981, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Smita, 1999

1 in 615,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Smita: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Smita means

Smita is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Smita is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 134 girls were recorded with the name Smita between 1967 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1981; its best national rank was #4,707 in 1981.

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 Smita?

Smita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 615,000
6 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 296,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,561 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Smita 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 1999 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 426,561 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Smita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Smitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Smita was born before 1982 — so the typical Smita is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
53.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
134
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 53.7% of all recorded uses (72).

Is Smita 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (16)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
59.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,707
1981

Spellings of Smita

Smita is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 27.8% against Smita'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 Smita is used

Across 1910–2025, Smita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 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. Smita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Smita around the world

Where Smita 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
    1987–1989
    #3,219
    in 1989

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

Smita 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,707
1981
Peak year
1981
16 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
134
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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Sibling names for Smita

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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