Cita
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: date (romantic outing)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/ˈsi.t̪a/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Cita is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 31K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 105K
- MXMexico≈1 in 140K
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 Cita 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 named Chhoti, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Chita in PH Philippines, ZM Zambia, NG Nigeria and Chhoti in IN India.
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)date (romantic outing)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Cita is read
(measured from records)Cita is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi37%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cita in Hindi.
- English14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cita in English.
- Spanish14%
date (romantic outing)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian11%
feeling
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Khmer6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cita in Khmer.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cita 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 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 634 | Chhoti | 46 |
| PH Philippines | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Chita | 26 |
| MX Mexico | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 144K | 9 | Cita | 41 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 2 | Chita | 14 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 810K | — | Chita | 10 |
| US United States | 269 | 1 in 1.2M | 264 | Cita | 74 |
| SI Slovenia | 67 | 1 in 31K | 67 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 56 | 1 in 105K | 56 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Cita is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, da Brigida
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the female given name Pacita
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of citer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of citus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cita Potokarb. 1915SISlovenian painter and illustrator (1915-1993)
- Cita Lovrenčič-Boleb. 1917SIYugoslav nurse (1917-1986)
- Cita Scottb. 1952USAmerican painter (born 1952)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 264 | #31,690 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 105 | #574 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 101 | #597 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 100 | #602 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 94 | #630 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 87 | #671 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 83 | #690 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 81 | #721 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 81 | #704 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 79 | #742 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 79 | #725 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 75 | #765 |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Cita?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈsi.t̪a/ (Wiktionary); in Indonesian /t͡ʃita/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Cita mean, and where does it come from?
- date (romantic outing) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Cita a male or female name?
- Cita is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- In which country does Cita have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 169 thousand people named Chhoti in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cita most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cita is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 31 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cita?
- In the United States, the national register counted 269 people named Cita in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cita?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/citaThe 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, “Cita”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.