Given name & surname · also Hindi, Sanskrit
Gita
“a beautiful song”·“a good woman”
Gita is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “a beautiful song” and “a good woman”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Original Hindiगीता
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “a beautiful song” and “a good woman”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
How it developed
The name draws on Sanskrit gita, meaning “song”.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1942. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 508
- 0 boys · 508 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,347 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −8%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,347 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 8.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 23 in 1970. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,986 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.
Gita’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Gita is a diminutive of BRIGITA. In English usage, Gita has a related form in Geeta. Gita has a related form in Geeta.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gita has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
9 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Gittelvariant
- Gayatrivariant
- Gitelvariant
- Geetavariant · English
- Brigitafull form · Latvian
- Gathavariant
- Margitafull form · Latvian
- Gitkadiminutive · Czech
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 5
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Gita
- Gita GopinathIndian-American economistborn 1971
- Gita MehtaIndian novelist and film director (1942–2023)
- Gita RamjeeUgandan-South African researcher1956–2020
- Gita SahgalIndian writer and activistborn 1950
- Gita GutawaIndonesian singer, songwriter, actressborn 1993
- Gita SarabhaiIndian musician1922–2011
- Gita SiddharthIndian actress2000–2019
- Gita Deyactress, thespian, radio performer (1931-2011)
- Gita Hallactress, model (1933-2016)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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