Ita
Ita was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,146 among girls’ names; 660 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ita?
#5,146 among girls’ names, 2025
Ita rose from #7,095 in 2015 to #5,146 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.5 to 15.6 per million.
25 babies in 2013, the peak
Ita peaked in 2013, when 25 girls were given it, #5,380 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,146 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,647 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,628 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,373 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,403 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,709 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,269 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,914 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,604 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,581 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,095 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,455 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,380 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,976 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,568 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,429 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,241 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,348 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,199 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,521 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,096 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,556 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,725 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,706 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,296 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,285 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,712 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,159 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,004 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,360 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,895 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,979 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,119 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,849 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,138 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,583 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,285 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,480 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,110 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,028 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,774 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,332 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,356 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,741 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,790 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,005 | 4.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,424 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,167 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,948 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,162 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,028 | 4.2 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,953 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,020 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,567 | 2.9 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,582 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,941 | 6.0 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,300 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,417 | 5.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,207 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,726 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,778 | 6.6 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,752 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,215 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,501 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,124 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,321 | 5.5 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,418 | 8.0 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,966 | 17.9 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,074 | 17.1 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,924 | 19.1 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,799 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,060 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ita, and how old are they?
An estimated 536 Americans named Ita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 860 people named Ita (802 women and girls, 58 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 438 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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).
Where are babies named Ita born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 10 | #740 | 3.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,915 | 3.5× |
Where Ita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ita is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Ita 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,094 babies since 1880, Ita is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 36 babies (69%), again the 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.
More about Ita and names like it
- Compare Ita and ItatiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIta peaked in 2013.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ita since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Ita.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ita alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.