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Sunita

Girls' name

Well conducted, wise

Sunita has been given to 609 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 1983, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Sunita, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sunita: meaning, origin, and history

Well conducted, wise

Sanskrit

What Sunita means

Sunita means “well conducted, wise”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sunita is used in Hinduism, Hindi, Marathi and Nepali.

Origin, language, and formation

Sunita is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Sunita is pronounced /suːˈniːtə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 609 girls were recorded with the name Sunita between 1963 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1983; its best national rank was #3,054 in 1983.

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 Sunita?

Sunita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sunita 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sunita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sunitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sunita was born before 1983 — so the typical Sunita is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
609
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (187).

Is Sunita 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 1983 (28)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,054
1983

Spellings of Sunita

Sunita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 33.1% against Sunita's 0.09%.

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 Sunita is used

Across 1910–2025, Sunita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 425,659 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Sunita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sunita around the world

Where Sunita 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
    1996–2007
    #3,218
    in 2007
  • Scotland
    1976–1985
    #565
    in 1985
  • France
    1988–2017
    #6,847
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1991–1998
    #2,262
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1980–1986
    #667
    in 1986

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Sunita 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
#3,054
1983
Peak year
1983
28 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
609
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sunita

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

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Sibling names for Sunita

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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