girls:
43 births since 1922
#5673 (1st percentile)
boys:
11 births since 2003
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
54 births since 1922
#7685 (1st percentile)
The name Pita is the #7,685 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 54 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 0.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,673 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 1922. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2003.
Pita first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for girls and 2003 for boys). Birth data for Pita is available in 10 out of the 86 years between 1922 and 2007 (8 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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.
The name Pita has been given predominantly to girls, with 79.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2007, 0.0% of babies named Pita were girls. Interestingly, until around 2003, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1922 to 2002), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2003 to 2007).
For girls, Pita reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #588) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1949.
For boys, Pita reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #882) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pita".
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