Given name & surname
Arita
“one who is virtuous; excellent”
Arita is a variant of Aretha. One Greek interpretation is “one who is virtuous; excellent.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Arita is a variant of Aretha. One Greek interpretation is “one who is virtuous; excellent.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Arita is a variant of Aretha. An origin associated with Aretha is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 220
- 0 boys · 220 girls
- Most popular year
- 1932
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1987. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1932. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 330 as a first name in 2020; 2,273 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Arita’s family of names
Arita has a related form in Aretha. In Japanese usage, Arita as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 有田.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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