Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Mita isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 62
- 0 boys · 62 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 8 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 6 in 1988. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,028 as a first name in 2020; 506 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.
Mita’s family of names
In Greek usage, Mita is a transliteration of Μήτα. In Greek usage, Mita as a surname is a transliteration of Μητά.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 5
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 Mita
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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