first name
RITA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 184,218 people named Rita, 71.4% reported their origin as White, 14% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.4% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Rita peaked in 1949, when 6,669 babies got the name.
At least 285,230 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Rita by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #88. The largest share of babies named Rita, 37%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Rita is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Rita has been most common in Rhode Island (2.9×), Massachusetts (2.5×), and New Hampshire (2.5×), and least common in Nevada (0.1×).
277,798 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.
Either side of Rita
Spelled almost the same
7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Rita, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Rita ranks #21,898 of 156,621, with 1,211 people. See Rita as a last name
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