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Wanita

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Wanita has been given to 2,534 babies in the U.S. since 1899. 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 1924, with 71 recorded.

Babies named Wanita, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wanita: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wanita means

Wanita is a given name.

The naming story behind Wanita

Wikidata records Wanita as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q102823983, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,534 girls were recorded with the name Wanita between 1899 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 71 in 1924; its best national rank was #902 in 1924.

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.

How common is Wanita?

Wanita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wanita 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wanita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wanitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wanita was born before 1942 — so the typical Wanita is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,018
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1920s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (506).

Is Wanita 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 1924 (71)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#902
1924

Spellings of Wanita

Wanita is not the most common spelling — Wanda is, with 26.6% against Wanita's 0.24%.

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 Wanita is used

Across 1910–2025, Wanita was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 150,745 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2Iowa1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 100,000

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

Wanita around the world

Where Wanita 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 Australia
    1954–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Wanita 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
#902
1924
Peak year
1924
71 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,534
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wanita

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

WanetaJovitaJanitaLanitaSaritaMaritaAlitaLupitaAmritaRositaAdelitaKavitaLolitaDenitaCarlitaNakitaIshitaNikitaVanitaEvitaClaritaArnitaWaniyaMelita

Names with a curve like Wanita

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

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Sibling names for Wanita

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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