Zita is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Zita in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Zita in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Zita by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Zita ranks at #6,870. That means there are 6,869 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zita.
Zita is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2002, where the name Zita was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Zita and were born in the USA in 2002, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Zita even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1884, it ranked on position 609 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zita was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Zita has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 13 times and thus landed on position 6,991 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 13 girls with the name Zita, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Zita are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Zita is registered in 12 states, among which are California, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana or Massachusetts. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Zita live in Ohio, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 82,521 would turn around if you called the name Zita across Ohio.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Z. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Zita is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 1.9% of all girls' names beginning with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with Z that are quite popular, the most common at present is Zoe.
If your name is Zita and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zita, you can simply say:
Zebra
Igloo
Tiger
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zita
Zita
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
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T
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Z
I
T
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zita sounds like this:
