Gita
Gita was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,343 among girls’ names; 508 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gita mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gita is “a female given name from Sanskrit, used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “song” (गीता).
Borrowed from Sanskrit गीता (gītā, “song”), sometimes in reference to Bhagavad Gita.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gita?
#12,343 among girls’ names, 2025
Gita fell from #9,701 in 2015 to #12,343 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 4.4 per million.
23 babies in 1970, the peak
Gita peaked in 1970, when 23 girls were given it, #2,969 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,343 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,447 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,000 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,165 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,646 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,605 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,397 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,783 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,008 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,390 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,701 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,434 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,735 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,986 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,623 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,164 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,495 | 6.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,622 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,126 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,878 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,247 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,547 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,989 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,347 | 3.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,714 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,062 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,593 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,965 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,231 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,512 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,378 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,705 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,981 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,045 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,331 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,904 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,517 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,979 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,711 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,482 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,268 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,888 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,905 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,969 | 13.2 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,675 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,859 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,399 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,812 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,301 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,651 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,659 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,114 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,911 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,775 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,767 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,073 | 3.4 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,174 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,864 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,054 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,934 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,894 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gita, and how old are they?
An estimated 474 Americans named Gita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 20 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,986 people named Gita (2,975 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 446 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,491 babies since 1880, Gita is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 207 babies (3.4%), again the second most given.
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 Gita
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 Gita and names like it
- Compare Gita and GittyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sGita peaked in 1970.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gita since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Gita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Gita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Gita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with GMost given first.