How rare is the name Sarita?

6,452 people in the United States have the first name Sarita, about 1 in 46,812. It ranks #3,303 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SARITA

#3,303

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,452
About
1 in 46,812
This common or more
82.1%
Who bears it

Of the 6,452 people named Sarita, 31.9% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 27% as Hispanic or Latino and 20.1% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Sarita peaked in 1965, when 166 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19102025
Peak year
1965
Births that year
166
In 2025*
19 ▼89%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,046 babies have been given the name since 1910. 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.

Sarita by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,791. The largest share of babies named Sarita, 30.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1910s#5,84850
1920s#6,04380
1930s#3,828143
1940s#3,215218
1950s#2,091646
1960s#1,7911,019
1970s#2,239784
1980s#2,275931
1990s#4,288494
2000s#6,977341
2010s#10,119215
2020s#10,025125
Greatest Generation 1901–272.2%
Silent Generation 1928–455.4%
Baby boom 1946–6422.9%
Generation X 1965–8030.5%
Millennials 1981–9623%
Generation Z 1997–1210.9%
2013 and later5.1%

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 Sarita is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Sarita has been most common in Texas (3.5×), New York (2.5×), and California (2.3×), and least common in Virginia (0.62×).

2,119 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 Sarita

#3,301 Germaine · 6,459#3,302 Lei · 6,455#3,304 Alysa · 6,451#3,305 Bibi · 6,449

Spelled almost the same

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

#11,820 Saritha · 1,070#20,463 Sarit · 505#33,752 Sarith · 244

Also a last name

As a last name, Sarita ranks #65,853 of 156,621, with 325 people. See Sarita as a last name

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