girls:
4.4k births since 1888
#2568 (55th percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1888
#4113 (47th percentile)
The name Lita is the #4,113 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,414 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 46.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,568 (55.1% percentile) for all time with 4,414 births since 1888.
Lita first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (first recorded for girls in 1888). Birth data for Lita is available in 123 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Lita reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 17.1% percentile (ranked #500) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 88 births per million (ranked 17.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lita ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 9.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lita".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lita is pronounced as LEE-tuh, which has 2 syllables.
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