Given name & surname · also Sanskrit
Sita
Sita is used as a given name and a surname. One Hindi interpretation is “in Hinduism, goddess of the harvest and wife of Rama.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “in Hinduism, goddess of the harvest and wife of Rama.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
How it developed
The name draws on Sanskrit sītā, meaning “furrow”.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 482
- 0 boys · 482 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,795 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +28%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,795 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,134 as a first name in 2020; 426 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.
Sita’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Sita is a diminutive of Teresita. Sita has a related form in Seeta. In Cebuano usage, Sita is a short form of Teresita.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Sita
- Sita Ram GoelIndian activist, writer and publisher (1921–2003)
- Sita DeviIndian Madhubani folk painter (1914–2005)
- Sita Devi of KapurthalaKapurthalian Royal (1915–2002)
- Sita ChanHong Kong singer (1987-2013)
- Seeta bint Fahd Al Damirmember of House of Saud (1922-2012)1913–2012
- Sita VallesPortuguese-Angolan communist leader1951–1977
- Sita SahuIndian sportswoman
- Sita Murtfashion designer1946–2014
- Sita Devi, Maharani of BarodaIndian socialite (1917–1989)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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