Vanita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Vanita

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,056 babies named Vanita between 1913 and 2003, spanning 91 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vanita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 53 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vanita performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 387 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Vanita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 91 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Missouri and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Vanita in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vanita 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 2,056 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.