Alita
Alita was given to 81 girls in 2025, #2,257 among girls’ names; 2,608 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,240 Americans named Alita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 6 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alita mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alita is “a female given name from Spanish.”
From Spanish Alita.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alita?
#2,257 among girls’ names, 2025
Alita rose from #10,923 in 2015 to #2,257 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 50.4 per million.
181 babies in 2020, the peak
Alita peaked in 2020, when 181 girls were given it, #1,256 among girls’ names. The 81 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | #2,257 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 91 | #2,099 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,804 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,871 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 116 | #1,761 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 181 | #1,256 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 170 | #1,340 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,010 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,743 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,828 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #10,923 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,166 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,288 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,471 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,945 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,815 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,910 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,110 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,746 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,244 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,268 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,977 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,804 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,138 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,329 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 23 | #4,987 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,736 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,853 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,143 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,096 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #5,989 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,825 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,011 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,259 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 25 | #3,998 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,854 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,583 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,924 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,760 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,356 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,323 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,853 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,782 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,070 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,318 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,336 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,285 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,288 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,811 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,556 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,349 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,546 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,430 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,113 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,454 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,632 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,117 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,094 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,249 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,197 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,251 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,164 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,545 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,512 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,193 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,261 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,841 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,878 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,160 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,271 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,040 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,315 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,002 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,415 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,450 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,601 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,135 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,403 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,821 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,399 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,030 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,742 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,185 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,808 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,109 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,435 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,744 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,871 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,645 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,980 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,061 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,304 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,499 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,562 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,876 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,119 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,447 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,979 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,151 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,407 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,409 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,518 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,887 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,925 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,140 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,269 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alita, and how old are they?
2,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 2,608 Americans ever recorded as Alita. The median Alita alive today is 24 years old; half are between 6 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,797 people named Alita (1,795 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,674 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 51 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 331 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 381 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 280 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 926 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alita born?
The states with the most babies named Alita are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,101 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,399 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,899 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,565 babies since 1880, Alita is the third most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 81 of their 149 babies (54%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alita
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alita and names like it
- Compare Alita and AltaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlita peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alita since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Alita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Alita.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alita alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.