Marnita
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 1962 · 202 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 820since 1942
Marnita over time
Rank among girls' names. Marnita has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | — | |
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| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 |
| 1967 | #3,484 | 14 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
| 1965 | #2,833 | 19 |
| 1964 | #2,530 | 24 |
| 1963 | #1,922 | 37 |
| 1962 | #727 | 202 |
| 1961 | #895 | 145 |
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| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Marnita! It came in at #3,738, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1954, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Marnita is popular in 1963
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#784 · 1 in 12,391
Best ever in a state: #382 in Indiana, 1962.
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| Illinois | #784 | 8 | 1 in 12,391 |
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See more about Marnita
- 2,086 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #13,208)
- Biggest jump: 168 spots in 1962 (#895 → #727)
- Biggest drop: 1,195 spots in 1963 (#727 → #1,922)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1962 at #727 (202 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1961–1962
- Highest: 1 in 9,736 girls born in 1962 were named Marnita (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 57.7% of all girls named Marnita (473) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 7 | #3,738 (1942) | #3,738 |
| 1950s | 17 | #5,208 (1955) | #5,512 |
| 1960s | 473 | #727 (1962) | #2,816 |
| 1970s | 70 | #6,189 (1979) | #7,241 |
| 1980s | 82 | #4,963 (1981) | #7,278 |
| 1990s | 66 | #6,465 (1990) | #9,798 |
| 2000s | 58 | #8,837 (2002) | #12,179 |
| 2010s | 28 | #13,483 (2012) | #15,470 |
| 2020s | 19 | #11,122 (2024) | #13,194 |
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.
Marnita in 1963
Top girls' names in 1963
More about 1963
girls
1,927,507 girls got a published name in 1963; 1 in 52,095 of them was named Marnita, which outranked 74.9% of the 7,661 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,894Sheryll38
- #1,894Sonda38
- #1,894Vada38
- #1,922Marnita37
- #1,922Adelaida37
- #1,922Ami37
- #1,922Camala37
- #1,952Alycia36
- #1,952Annita36
- #1,952Brett36
Tied with 29 names at #1,922; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.