Vonita
Vonita was last recorded in 1983, when 5 babies were given it; 394 Americans have been recorded with it between 1923 and 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vonita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vonita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,023, in 1983; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1963, the peak
Vonita peaked in 1963, when 18 girls were given it, #3,060 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 5 | #12,023 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,276 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,145 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,106 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,538 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,548 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,200 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,976 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,353 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,571 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 10 | #5,469 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,348 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,603 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,996 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,613 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,482 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,518 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,874 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,060 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,284 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,232 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,914 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 11 | #4,021 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,511 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,362 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,691 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,218 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,957 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,584 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,790 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,813 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,281 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #6,007 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,278 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,213 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,673 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,675 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,350 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,400 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,997 | 4.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,691 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,947 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,198 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,265 | 8.4 |
| 1930 | 10 | #3,047 | 8.9 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,553 | 7.5 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,867 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,945 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vonita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vonita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vonita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vonita, and how old are they?
An estimated 284 Americans named Vonita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 53 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 304 people named Vonita (304 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 311 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,264 babies since 1880, Vonita is the second most given (31% 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 Vonita
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 Vonita and names like it
- Compare Vonita and VonettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sVonita peaked in 1963.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Vonita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vonita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.