Sunita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Sunita

The Social Security Administration has registered 609 babies named Sunita between 1963 and 2023, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sunita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sunita performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 187 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sunita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 62 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Sunita in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sunita 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 609 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.