Markitta
Markitta was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 99 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Markitta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Markitta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,859, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1984, the peak
Markitta peaked in 1984, when 11 girls were given it, #6,134 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #14,859 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,886 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,640 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,358 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,274 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,407 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,891 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,702 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,165 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,127 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 11 | #6,134 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,755 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,757 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,184 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Markitta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Markitta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Markitta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Markitta, and how old are they?
An estimated 96 Americans named Markitta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 117 people named Markitta (117 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 97 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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).
How common is the spelling Markitta?
Markitta is a less common spelling of Markita: SSA has recorded 99 Markitta and 2,495 Markita since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,820 babies since 1880, Markitta is the sixth most given (2.1% 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 Markitta
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 Markitta and names like it
- Compare Markitta and MarkitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMarkitta peaked in 1984.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Markitta.
- Names starting with MMost given first.