Zita
Zita was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,128 among girls’ names; 2,977 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Zita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 26 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zita mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Zita is “a female given name”
Name of a 13th century Italian saint, of debated etymology.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zita?
#7,128 among girls’ names, 2025
Zita rose from #8,923 in 2015 to #7,128 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 10.0 per million.
69 babies in 1922, the peak
Zita peaked in 1922, when 69 girls were given it, #887 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,128 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,543 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,183 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,533 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,406 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,960 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,708 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,094 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,832 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,863 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (136)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,923 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,201 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,986 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,459 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,364 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,939 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,447 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,386 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,912 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,275 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,884 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,255 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,415 | 5.5 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,339 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,572 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,932 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,148 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,793 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,759 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,579 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,550 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,598 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,579 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,871 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,753 | 4.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,828 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,499 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,805 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,066 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,908 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,320 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,176 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,693 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,561 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,439 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,210 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,511 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,921 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,584 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,176 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,873 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,434 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,721 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,607 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,843 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,737 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,343 | 15.3 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,106 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,422 | 13.5 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,602 | 11.7 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,540 | 11.9 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,367 | 12.9 |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,052 | 15.3 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,115 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,987 | 15.2 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,450 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,801 | 17.9 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,767 | 18.0 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,620 | 20.2 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,072 | 13.5 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,114 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,051 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,338 | 11.1 |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,667 | 18.8 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,820 | 16.4 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,092 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,823 | 16.8 |
| 1944 | 19 | #2,025 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,897 | 15.8 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,590 | 20.7 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,609 | 20.7 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,681 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,377 | 27.4 |
| 1938 | 35 | #1,249 | 31.7 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,281 | 31.0 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,479 | 25.0 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,355 | 28.6 |
| 1934 | 32 | #1,291 | 30.6 |
| 1933 | 52 | #956 | 51.6 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,267 | 31.9 |
| 1931 | 44 | #1,073 | 41.3 |
| 1930 | 52 | #1,030 | 46.2 |
| 1929 | 51 | #1,031 | 45.7 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,177 | 37.3 |
| 1927 | 59 | #999 | 49.5 |
| 1926 | 46 | #1,132 | 38.8 |
| 1925 | 54 | #1,036 | 44.4 |
| 1924 | 47 | #1,150 | 37.6 |
| 1923 | 61 | #951 | 50.6 |
| 1922 | 69 | #887 | 57.5 |
| 1921 | 67 | #913 | 54.3 |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,102 | 39.2 |
| 1919 | 49 | #1,041 | 43.4 |
| 1918 | 65 | #893 | 56.1 |
| 1917 | 65 | #858 | 60.1 |
| 1916 | 57 | #903 | 54.6 |
| 1915 | 56 | #884 | 56.9 |
| 1914 | 41 | #931 | 53.8 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,357 | 30.4 |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,031 | 46.6 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,371 | 31.1 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,420 | 30.3 |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,051 | 46.1 |
| 1908 | 23 | #827 | 68.8 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,036 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 16 | #964 | 54.2 |
| 1905 | 17 | #925 | 58.3 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,362 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 17 | #861 | 64.9 |
| 1902 | 14 | #971 | 53.0 |
| 1901 | 17 | #828 | 71.0 |
| 1900 | 20 | #859 | 66.7 |
| 1899 | 12 | #982 | 51.5 |
| 1898 | 18 | #820 | 69.6 |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,036 | 47.0 |
| 1896 | 14 | #902 | 58.8 |
| 1895 | 14 | #892 | 59.9 |
| 1894 | 14 | #849 | 62.8 |
| 1893 | 10 | #1,022 | 47.0 |
| 1892 | 11 | #957 | 51.8 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,331 | 32.3 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,207 | 36.8 |
| 1889 | 14 | #722 | 78.5 |
| 1887 | 11 | #732 | 75.4 |
| 1884 | 11 | #685 | 85.3 |
| 1882 | 6 | #907 | 55.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 136 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zita, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 41% of the 2,977 Americans ever recorded as Zita. The median Zita alive today is 58 years old; half are between 26 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 2,676 people named Zita (2,674 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,322 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 150 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 395 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 232 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 115 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 135 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 184 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Zita born?
The states with the most babies named Zita are New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 121 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 98 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 86 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 79 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 21 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Iowa | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zita
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 Zita and names like it
- Compare Zita and NevaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sZita peaked in 1922.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zita since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Zita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Zita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Zita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.