Marnita
Marnita was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,316 among girls’ names; 820 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 Marnita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marnita?
#14,316 among girls’ names, 2025
Marnita entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,316 in 2025.
202 babies in 1962, the peak
Marnita peaked in 1962, when 202 girls were given it, #727 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,316 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,774 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,830 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,130 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,264 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,470 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,090 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,837 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,752 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,948 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #19,024 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,648 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,239 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,662 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,928 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,284 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,292 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,161 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,192 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,051 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,712 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,792 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,760 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,167 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,133 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,855 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,619 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,131 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,166 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,501 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,380 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,293 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,238 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,653 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,618 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,237 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,995 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,778 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,917 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,669 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,585 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,887 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,572 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,938 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 202 | #727 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 145 | #898 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,546 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,612 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,986 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marnita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marnita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marnita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marnita, and how old are they?
An estimated 739 Americans named Marnita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 39 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 680 people named Marnita (678 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 744 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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 1,005 babies since 1880, Marnita is the most given (82% 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 Marnita
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 Marnita and names like it
- Compare Marnita and MarianitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMarnita peaked in 1962.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marnita since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Marnita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marnita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.