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Vita

#4,453 in 2025Girls' name

Life

Vita has been given to 4,591 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #4,453 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 84 recorded.

Babies named Vita, 2025

1 in 104,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vita: meaning, origin, and history

Life

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vita means

Vita means “life”, associated with vita.

Origin, language, and formation

Vita is used in Danish, Dutch, Latvian, Lithuanian, Sicilian and Slovene.

Vita comes through Latin vita.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vitus, Vitalija and Vitu.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Vita is pronounced /ˈvi.taː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,591 girls were recorded with the name Vita between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 84 in 1921; its best national rank was #796 in 1929.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,907 in 2020 to #4,453 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,717 in 2015 to #4,453 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 Vita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,453
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vita 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vita was born before 1950 — so the typical Vita is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,347
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 15.8% of all recorded uses (726).

Is Vita 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
−883
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−546
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+264
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.1%
Peak was 1921 (84)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#796
1929

Spellings of Vita

Vita is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 25.5% against Vita's 0.12%.

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 Vita is used

Across 1910–2025, Vita was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 41,654 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 10,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 50,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  7. 7Connecticut1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 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. Vita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vita around the world

Where Vita 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
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    1925–2025
    #5,903
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1953–1983
    #686
    in 1983

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 Vita

People whose public names include Vita, 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.

Vita in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Vita. Linked forms have their own page here.

Vytautė

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Vita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,453
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 546
Best rank ever
#796
1929
Peak year
1921
84 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,591
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Vita

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

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Names with a curve like Vita

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

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Sibling names for Vita

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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