Given name & surname
Kita
“woman from the north”
Kita is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “woman from the north.”
Original Japanese喜多
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “woman from the north.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1950. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 176
- 0 boys · 176 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 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 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1977. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 582 as a first name in 2020; 909 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.
Kita’s family of names
In Greek usage, Kita as a surname is a transliteration of Κήτα. In Japanese usage, Kita as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 喜多.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Kita
- Kita AbashidzeGeorgian literary critic, journalist, and politician (1870-1917)
- Kusunose KitaJapanese activist1836–1920
- Katakura KitaJapanese Samurai woman1538–1610
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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