Arnita
Recorded 1911–1993 · United States
Arnita was most popular in 1956, when 70 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,058 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,047 people named Arnita.
Arnita over time
How old is the name Arnita?
Arnita first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1911, which makes it about 114 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 81 of the 115 years since. It was last recorded in 1993.
How many people are named Arnita?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,047 American births named Arnita between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,421 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Arnita in 2025?
Arnita was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Arnita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Arnita is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,047 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Arnita?
Roughly 1,421 Americans named Arnita are alive today — 69% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 65 years old, and half are between 56 and 72.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Arnita is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org