Pita — unisex name

What the Data Says About Pita

The Social Security Administration has registered 43 babies named Pita between 1922 and 1949, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1949. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Pita is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pita performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 27 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Pita shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Mexico, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Pita in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pita in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 43 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.