Ritä
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ritä is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. 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.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 200(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 320
- LVLatvia1 in 325
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ritä itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #528 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 547 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 203 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rita in US United States, NG Nigeria, FI Finland and 3 more, רוזיטה in BR Brazil and ריטה in LV Latvia.
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 across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ritä 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈1,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 45 | Rita | 138 |
| NG Nigeria | #204 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 733 | — | Rita | 112 |
| BR Brazil | — | 309,366 | 1 in 684 | 356K | רוזיטה | 7 |
| US United States | #246 | 184,218 | 1 in 1.8K | 184K | Rita | 547 |
| IT Italy | #332 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 323 | 8 | Rita | 129 |
| FI Finland | — | 36,497as Riitta | 1 in 153 | 46K | Rita | 43 |
| HU Hungary | — | 25,764 | 1 in 379 | 26K | — | 6 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 203 | 18K | — | 5 |
| LV Latvia | — | 5,784 | 1 in 325 | 5.8K | ריטה | 40 |
| IE Ireland | #151 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 969 | — | Rita | 101 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Registrų centras — top-50 given names; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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 Ritä 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.
- Is Ritä a male or female name?
- Ritä is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ritä have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 million people named Ritä in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rita.
- How common is the name Ritä?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 309,366 people named Ritä in 2022, about 1 in 684 residents.
- How common is Ritä compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Ritä is the 151st most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rit%C3%A4The 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, “Ritä” — the 151st most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.