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Zita

#7,128 in 2025Girls' name

A resident of Sidon

Zita has been given to 2,977 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #7,128 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Zita, 2025

1 in 207,000

Zita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zita: meaning, origin, and history

A resident of Sidon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zita means

Zita means “a resident of Sidon”, associated with Sidonius.

Origin, language, and formation

Zita is used in Czech, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Occitan and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sidonia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Zita is pronounced [ˈzɪta].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,977 girls were recorded with the name Zita between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 69 in 1922; its best national rank was #685 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,960 in 2020 to #7,128 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,923 in 2015 to #7,128 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 Zita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,128
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zita 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zita was born before 1935 — so the typical Zita is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,099
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (544).

Is Zita 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
+2,415
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+832
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,795
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.2%
Peak was 1922 (69)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#685
1884

Spellings of Zita

Zita is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 27.4% against Zita's 0.08%.

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 Zita is used

Across 1910–2025, Zita was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 169,837 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 100,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 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. Zita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zita around the world

Where Zita 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
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1965–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    1900–2025
    #889
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2016
    #2,808
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1945–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Zita

People whose public names include Zita, 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.

Zita in other languages

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

Sita

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

Zita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,128
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 832
Best rank ever
#685
1884
Peak year
1922
69 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,977
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Zita

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

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Names with a curve like Zita

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

ColettaLouisJosefaTomasaRoselleHenryMargareteAugustineTinyWalterGregoriaLaurine

Sibling names for Zita

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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