Karita
Karita was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 197 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Karita mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Karita is “a female given name”
From Swedish Carita.
/ˈkɑritɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Karita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,794, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1981, the peak
Karita peaked in 1981, when 17 girls were given it, #4,416 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #17,794 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,139 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,548 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,373 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,731 | 4.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,697 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,045 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,655 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,750 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,228 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 6 | #9,669 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,972 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,789 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,416 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,554 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,409 | 6.2 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,906 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,645 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,448 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,125 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,988 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,861 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,641 | 4.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,580 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,134 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karita, and how old are they?
An estimated 188 Americans named Karita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 38 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 281 people named Karita (281 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 190 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,284 babies since 1880, Karita is the second most given (15% of them).
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 Karita
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 Karita and names like it
- Compare Karita and CaritaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKarita peaked in 1981.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karita since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Karita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Karita.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Karita alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.