Anita
17
Babies in 2024
-41%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 71
+31%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Anita
Anita peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (71 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 17 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Anita reached its peak in 1996, when 71 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #436 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 17 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,107 girls have been officially registered with the name Anita in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 262 girls were registered with the name, starting from 29 in 2014 and ending at 17 in 2024.