Zita
Zita is a girl's name that peaked in 1922, when it was the 879th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,838th. About 1,200 Zitas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Zita
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,977
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 879th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,838th
- First recorded
- 1882
How old the living Zitas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,977 babies given the name since 1882, about 1,200 are alive — 42 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 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 Zitas
- Zita of Bourbon-Parma (1892–1989)Empress of Austria from 1916 to 1918
- St. Zita (1218–1278)Italian servant and Catholic saint from Lucca, patron of domestic workers (lived c.1212-1272)
- Zita Hanrot (born 1989)French film and television actress
- Zita-Eva Funkenhauser (born 1966)fencer
- Zita Johann (1904–1993)Austrian-American actress
- Zita Kabátová (1913–2012)Czech actress
- Zita Szucsánszki (born 1987)Hungarian handball player
- Zita Görög (born 1979)Hungarian actress and model
People named Zita with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Zita is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Zita is most concentrated in Ohio (3.7×), Pennsylvania (3.7×), Illinois (3.2×), New York (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular girls’ names the year Zita peaked:
Zita elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium girls | Zita | 1,184 | 57th |
| France girls | Zita | 975 | 960th |
| Ireland girls | Zita | 106 | 347th |
| England and Wales girls | Zita | 81 | 2,781st |
| Switzerland girls | Zita | 53 | 832nd |
| Poland girls | Zita | 2 birth registrations | 766th |
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.
Zita: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Zita | 38 | 0.003% | 672nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Zita | 15 | 0.003% | 512th |
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.
Zita: rank by region
In 2025, Zita was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Zita | 370 | 14 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Zita appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (243rd).
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.
Zita by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 555th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Zita 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 | Zita | 13 | 18 |
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 Zita lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 188 women called Zita 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Zita | 20 | 0.036 | 1,970 |
| Asturias | Zita | 11 | 0.021 | 1,885 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Zita | 22 | 0.021 | 2,343 |
| Tarragona | Zita | 8 | 0.018 | 2,438 |
| Palmas, Las | Zita | 9 | 0.015 | 4,039 |
| Almería | Zita | 5 | 0.013 | 3,025 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 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
Zita 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.