Given name & surname
Geeta
“song”
Geeta is a feminine given name from South Asian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Geeta is a variant of Gita. An origin associated with Gita is Sanskrit.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1968. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Geeta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 190
- 0 boys · 190 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 13 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 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,982 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Geeta’s family of names
Geeta has a related form in Gita. Geeta as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form GOETHE.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Geeta
- Geeta PhogatIndian freestyle wrestler (born 1988)
- Geeta BaliIndian actress (1930-1965)
- Geeta DuttIndian playback singer (1930–1972)
- Geeta BasraBritish actressborn 1984
- Geeta KapurIndian dancer and choreographerborn 1973
- Geeta MahalikClassical dancerborn 1948
- Geeta TripatheeNepali poet, lyricist, essayist and literary criticborn 1972
- Geeta ZutshiIndian athleteborn 1956
- Geeta ChandranBharatnatyam dancer from Delhi, Indiaborn 1962
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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