Bita
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Meaning
unique, matchless
The story
Bita is a Persian girls' name meaning unique, matchless, the word itself understood as bi plus ta, without a like. It belongs to the family of Persian names that are ordinary vocabulary made precious by bestowal, and it reads as modern in Iran without being newly invented. For diaspora families it has a practical grace: two syllables, spellable on first hearing, with no sound English mangles. Its closeness to familiar Western names like Rita means an American Bita is rarely asked to repeat herself, only to explain, and the explanation is a compliment: there is no one like you. The US curve is empty until the 2020s, when the name first registers in public records. Few names state their wish for a child so plainly and so kindly.
How popular is Bita around the world?
In the United States, Bita is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source. In Austria, 2 girls named Bita were born in 2025, ranked 1,305th among girls that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
Bita is on the official records of Austria, Spain and Brazil.
United States
under 5 a year
In the United States, Bita is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Bita has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Austria
1 in 38,000
In Austria, 2 girls named Bita were born in 2025, ranked 1,305th among girls that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Spain
1 in 1.2M
In Spain, 36 residents are named Bita, ranked 18,601st among women, with a mean age of 43.7 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Brazil
At the 2022 census, 28 people in Brazil were named Bita, ranked 99,072nd, with a median age of 45.
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
England and Wales
last on record 2021
Bita is not on the 2025 record for England and Wales, where spellings under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
South Australia
last on record 2000
Bita is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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The Bita deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Bita truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Bita fits with your family’s names and surname.
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