How rare is the name Anitra?

3,684 people in the United States have the first name Anitra, about 1 in 81,985. It ranks #4,870 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

ANITRA

#4,870

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,684
About
1 in 81,985
This common or more
84.6%
Who bears it

Of the 3,684 people named Anitra, 68.6% reported their origin as Black, 19.9% as White and 5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Anitra peaked in 1976, when 596 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19232013
Peak year
1976
Births that year
596
In 2013
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,379 babies have been given the name since 1923. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Anitra by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,148. The largest share of babies named Anitra, 62.3%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1920s#11,45212
1930s#7,62033
1940s#5,89274
1950s#4,236176
1960s#3,308329
1970s#1,1482,489
1980s#2,655735
1990s#5,057390
2000s#14,787116
2010s#31,65225
Greatest Generation 1901–270.3%
Silent Generation 1928–451.3%
Baby boom 1946–649.9%
Generation X 1965–8062.3%
Millennials 1981–9621%
Generation Z 1997–125.1%
2013 and later0.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Anitra is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Anitra has been most common in Louisiana (5.6×), Mississippi (2.3×), and Alabama (2.3×), and least common in New York (0.64×).

2,606 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Anitra

1 other first name also has 3,684 people.

#4,870 Mallorie · 3,684

Either side of Anitra

#4,867 Sari · 3,687#4,869 Fadi · 3,686#4,870 Mallorie · 3,684#4,872 Rigo · 3,683

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Anitra, most common first.

#25,632 Anetra · 369#44,702 Anitria · 154

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