Vita
Vita reached its high-water mark in 1921 at number 797, and has been recorded 4,591 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,352nd. About 2,600 Vitas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Vita
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,591
- Estimated living today
- 2,600
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 797th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,352nd
- First recorded
- 1888
How old the living Vitas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,591 babies given the name since 1888, about 2,600 are alive — 56 in every hundred. Roughly 560 of them are children and 870 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Vitas
- Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962)English writer, poet, and gardener
- Vita Semerenko (born 1986)Ukrainian biathlete
- Vita Styopina (born 1976)Ukrainian high jumper
- Vita Pavlysh (born 1969)Ukrainian shot putter
- Vita Palamar (born 1977)Ukrainian high jumper
- Vita Marissa (born 1981)Indonesian badminton player
People named Vita with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Vita is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vita is most concentrated in New York (8.6×), New Jersey (1.7×), Michigan (1.7×), Illinois (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular girls’ names the year Vita peaked:
Vita elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Vita | 440 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Vita | 190 | 1,718th |
| France girls | Vita | 160 | 5,903rd |
| Belgium girls | Vita | 109 | 401st |
| Switzerland girls | Vita | 46 | 893rd |
| Poland girls | Vita | 2 birth registrations | 706th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Vita: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Vita | 36 | 0.003% | 663rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Vita | 5 | 0.001% | 759th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Vita | 5 | 0.008% | 120th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Vita: rank by region
In 2025, Vita was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Vita | 656 | 7 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Vita by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 3 | 494th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Vita among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Vita | 21 | 24 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Vita lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 377 women called Vita were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Vita | 43 | 0.042 | 1,498 |
| Málaga | Vita | 36 | 0.039 | 1,381 |
| Lleida | Vita | 8 | 0.036 | 1,531 |
| Almería | Vita | 12 | 0.032 | 1,728 |
| Tarragona | Vita | 12 | 0.027 | 1,912 |
| Valencia/València | Vita | 36 | 0.026 | 1,740 |
Listed in 22 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 30 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Vita against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.