Sarita

Girls' name · Late 20th-century · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US: ~4,500 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #6,116 among girls
Births in 2025: 19 5,046 since 1880
Typical age: 47 years, median

Sarita popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1910–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Sarita was used most in 1965, when 166 babies were given the name. The name does not appear in the data until 1910. The 2025 position is #6,116, on 19 births.

It slipped 673 places against the previous year.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Sarita?

Roughly 4,500 Saritas are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 5,046 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Sarita?

Median age among living Saritas: 47. More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Sarita a late 20th-century name.

Your Sarita

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where the name Sarita comes from

English Wiktionary: given name from Sanskrit.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Notable people named Sarita

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Sarita Choudhury	British actress	1966	24
Sarita Joshi	Indian actress	1941	16
Sarita Mor	Indian amateur wrestler	1995	11
Sarita Adve	computer scientist and professor	—	8
Sarita Singh	Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)	—	8

Photo credits (3)

Sarita Choudhury — David Shankbone, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sarita Joshi — Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sarita Mor — President's Secretariat, GODL-India, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Sarita

Sara #198 in 2025

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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