Riță
surname · Latin script
Riță is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 59th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Italian Rita, later also used as a short form of Marita and Carita. First recorded as a name of Swedes in 1880.
- LVLatvia1 in 325(measured from records)
- HUHungary1 in 379
- BRBrazil1 in 684
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #748 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- 1 in 325 (inferred from the name graph)
309,366 people, 2022
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rita in BR Brazil, US United States, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Italian Rita, later also used as a short form of Marita and Carita. First recorded as a name of Swedes in 1880.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A dictionary of surnames
- Russian Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Riță counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #59 | 309,366 | 1 in 684 | 356K | Rita | 202 |
| US United States | — | 184,218 | 1 in 1.8K | 184K | Rita | 420 |
| HU Hungary | — | 25,764 | 1 in 379 | 26K | — | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 12,077 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | — | 44 |
| ES Spain | #327 | 10,024 | 1 in 5K | 10K | Rita | 158 |
| NO Norway | — | 6,447 | 1 in 848 | 21K | — | 32 |
| LV Latvia | — | 5,784 | 1 in 325 | 5.8K | — | 22 |
| DK Denmark | — | 5,189 | 1 in 1.1K | 5.2K | — | 2 |
309,366 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC — civil registry names; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Riță mean, and where does it come from?
- From Italian Rita, later also used as a short form of Marita and Carita. First recorded as a name of Swedes in 1880. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Russian Names and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Riță have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 309 thousand people named Riță, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rita.
- Where is Riță most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Riță is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 325 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Riță?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 309,366 people named Riță in 2022, about 1 in 684 residents.
- How common is Riță compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Riță is the 59th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ri%C8%9B%C4%83The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Riță” — the 59th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.