Unita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Unita has been given to 84 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 1954, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Unita, 1975
1 in 604,000
Unita over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Unita?
Unita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1975
- 1 in 604,000
- 5 of 3,019,126 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1975
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 418,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Unita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1975 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 418,541 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Unita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Unitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Unita was born before 1954 — so the typical Unita is around 71 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 23.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 54
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (20).
Is Unita 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 1954 (12)
- Years since peak
- 71
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.1% average annual change
Spellings of Unita
Unita is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 25.6% against Unita'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.
Unita around the world
Where Unita 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.
- South Australia1946–1949#387in 1949
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Unita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Unita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Unita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.