Girls' name · since 1918
Arita
Arita has 220 recorded births since 1918 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1932 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #18,831 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 220
- born since 1918
- 1960s
- peak decade
220 girls have been named Arita since 1918, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Arita has 220 recorded births among girls since 1918, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1918 to 1987.
- #18,831 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 220 born since 1918
- 1960s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Arita ranks #18,831 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 220 born since 1918, peaking in the 1960s.
- #18,831 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 220
- born since 1918
- 1960s
- peak decade
Arita's 220 recorded births place it above 73.91% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Arita's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Arita's SSA record in two at 1949 and the more recent half accounts for 52% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 48%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1918, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1932 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Arita popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1918–1987
- Peak year (1932)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 70 years of records
Arita by decade
1960s is the heaviest window (41 births, 19% of the file).
1960s was Arita's strongest decade.
41 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 19% of all-time use.
Arita births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 10
1910s
10 births
- 1920s
1920s
28 births
- 1930s
1930s
34 births
- 1940s
1940s
38 births
- 1950s
1950s
39 births
- 1960s
1960s
41 births
- 1970s
1970s
17 births
- 1980s 13
1980s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 41 births (19% of all-time use).
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- Arita's decade-level peak was the 1960s (41 total births); usage has since declined to 13 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Arita: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1932)
Similar record span (~69 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1918–1987 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Arita draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.