Alita
#2,256 for girls in 2025, 81 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 181 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,608since 1914
Alita over time
Rank among girls' names. Alita has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,256 | 81 |
| 2024 | #2,099 | 91 |
| 2023 | #1,802 | 112 |
| 2022 | #1,870 | 108 |
| 2021 | #1,760 | 116 |
| 2020 | #1,256 | 181 |
| 2019 | #1,340 | 170 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 |
| 2005 | #4,267 | 32 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #4,826 | 20 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 |
| 1990 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 |
| 1988 | #3,585 | 26 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 |
| 1983 | #2,853 | 30 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 |
| 1981 | #3,066 | 28 |
| 1980 | #3,318 | 25 |
| 1979 | #3,333 | 24 |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 |
| 1974 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1973 | #2,349 | 32 |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 |
| 1971 | #2,427 | 31 |
| 1970 | #3,110 | 21 |
| 1969 | #2,454 | 28 |
| 1968 | #2,630 | 23 |
| 1967 | #2,117 | 31 |
| 1966 | #2,094 | 31 |
| 1965 | #2,247 | 28 |
| 1964 | #2,195 | 30 |
| 1963 | #2,252 | 28 |
| 1962 | #2,163 | 30 |
| 1961 | #2,543 | 23 |
| 1960 | #2,512 | 23 |
| 1959 | #2,191 | 27 |
| 1958 | #2,260 | 25 |
| 1957 | #1,842 | 35 |
| 1956 | #2,249 | 24 |
| 1955 | #1,877 | 32 |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 |
| 1952 | #3,040 | 13 |
| 1951 | #2,314 | 19 |
| 1950 | #2,002 | 23 |
| 1949 | #2,726 | 14 |
| 1948 | #2,416 | 17 |
| 1947 | #2,448 | 17 |
| 1946 | #2,597 | 14 |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 |
| 1944 | #2,401 | 14 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 |
| 1941 | #2,397 | 13 |
| 1940 | #2,029 | 16 |
| 1939 | #2,736 | 10 |
| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 |
| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 |
| 1936 | #3,103 | 8 |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 |
| 1934 | #2,741 | 10 |
| 1933 | #2,868 | 9 |
| 1932 | #2,644 | 11 |
| 1931 | #2,972 | 9 |
| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 |
| 1929 | #2,301 | 14 |
| 1928 | #2,497 | 13 |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 |
| 1926 | #2,872 | 11 |
| 1925 | #3,116 | 10 |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 |
| 1922 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1921 | #3,400 | 9 |
| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,512 | 8 |
| 1917 | #2,879 | 10 |
| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 |
| 1915 | #3,134 | 8 |
| 1914 | #2,265 | 10 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alita! It came in at #2,265, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1919, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Alita is popular in 1957
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,026 · 1 in 18,219
Best ever in a state: #510 in Colorado, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,026 | 9 | 1 in 18,219 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alita
- 157 spots since 2024 (#2,099 → #2,256)
- 1,000 spots since 2020 (#1,256 → #2,256)
- 8,610 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #2,256)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2020 at #1,256 (181 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,931 girls born in 2020 were named Alita (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,843 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 26.4% of all girls named Alita (689) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 42 | #2,265 (1914) | #3,142 |
| 1920s | 94 | #2,301 (1929) | #3,370 |
| 1930s | 87 | #2,644 (1932) | #3,053 |
| 1940s | 125 | #2,029 (1940) | #2,551 |
| 1950s | 223 | #1,842 (1957) | #2,420 |
| 1960s | 275 | #2,094 (1966) | #2,321 |
| 1970s | 245 | #2,349 (1973) | #3,019 |
| 1980s | 202 | #2,853 (1983) | #4,280 |
| 1990s | 142 | #4,003 (1990) | #6,927 |
| 2000s | 193 | #4,267 (2005) | #6,640 |
| 2010s | 291 | #1,340 (2019) | #8,323 |
| 2020s | 689 | #1,256 (2020) | #1,841 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alita in 1957
Top girls' names in 1957
More about 1957
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2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 58,424 of them was named Alita, which outranked 73.7% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,808Sunny36
- #1,808Velva36
- #1,808Zona36
- #1,842Alita35
- #1,842Annita35
- #1,842Artie35
- #1,842Blondell35
- #1,869Adell34
- #1,869Andree34
- #1,869Arthur34
Tied with 26 names at #1,842; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.