Kita
Kita was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 176 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,551, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1977, the peak
Kita peaked in 1977, when 13 girls were given it, #5,063 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,551 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,832 | 4.4 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,533 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,712 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,959 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,956 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,737 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,500 | 4.2 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,550 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,760 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 6 | #9,545 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,747 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,063 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,024 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,778 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,533 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,355 | 6.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,298 | 6.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,024 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,909 | 4.3 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,601 | 3.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,900 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,615 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,181 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,812 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,695 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kita, and how old are they?
An estimated 162 Americans named Kita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 43 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 582 people named Kita (549 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 154 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kita rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 11,963 babies since 1880, Kita is the second most given (1.5% 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 Kita
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 Kita and names like it
- Compare Kita and KittyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKita peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Kita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.