Mita
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: a place to put sago made of bamboo or rattan, shaped like an inverted cone, usually with rope
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmitə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mita is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 76th most common given name.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 5.9K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.5Kas Mitu
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 Mita itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 named Mitu, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Amrita in BR Brazil, GY Guyana, NP Nepal, Amita in US United States, ID Indonesia, Mitu in BD Bangladesh and Мита in BG Bulgaria.
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)
meaning ‘three rice paddies’, the name is more common in eastern Japan. It is also pronounced Santa or Sanda in western Japan.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mita is read(measured from records)
Mita is one spelling over 4 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.
- Hindi64%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mita in Hindi.
- Bangla11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mita in Bangla.
- Indonesian8.8%
a place to put sago made of bamboo or rattan, shaped like an inverted cone, usually with rope
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.3%
tdmk for a photocopying machine
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
Mita 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #218 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Mitu | 58 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Amita | 61 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 2 | Amrita | 45 |
| ET Ethiopia | #915 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | אמיטה | 3 |
| US United States | — | 2,738as Amrita | 1 in 121K | 2.7K | Amita | 254 |
| BG Bulgaria | #665 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Мита | 19 |
| GY Guyana | #76 | 558as Amrita | 1 in 1.3K | 558 | Amrita | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 47 | 1 in 4.5M | 1.2K | Amrita | 10 |
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; the id-github-names register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Mita 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 Japanese, meaning ‘three rice paddies’, the name is more common in eastern Japan. It is also pronounced Santa or Sanda in western Japan.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
one who has been measured; which is frugal; little; short; brief; firm; founded; established. a friend.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In pi, A stronghold in Ceylon, mentioned in the account of the campaigns of Parakkamabāhu I.’
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
In Japanese, from a pet form of the personal name Dymitr (Latin Demetrius; see Demetriou).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Mita Taupopokib. 1845NZTuhourangi and Ngati Wahiao leader
- Mita Hartmannb. 1889NONorwegian writer
- Mita Klimab. 1893ATAustrian tennis player (1893-1945)
- Bob Henareb. 1932NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand engineer and health manager
- Mita Mohib. 1939NZNew Zealand rugby league footballer and coach
- Mita Medicib. 1950ITItalian singer and actress
- Mita Choudhuryb. 1964UShistorian
- Mita Marrab. 1972ITeconomist
- Mita Milkovicauthor
- Mita ChatterjeeINIndian singer
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)
Attested in 64 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #12,191 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 47 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #69,533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 25 | #12,191 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 6 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Mita come from?
- meaning ‘three rice paddies’, the name is more common in eastern Japan. It is also pronounced Santa or Sanda in western Japan. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mita?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmitə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Mita a male or female name?
- Mita 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.
- What does the name Mita mean?
- In Indonesian, a place to put sago made of bamboo or rattan, shaped like an inverted cone, usually with rope
- In which country does Mita have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Mitu in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mita?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 47 people named Mita in 2022, about 1 in 4.5 million residents.
- How common is Mita compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Mita is the 218th most common given name of 29,323 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/mitaThe 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, “Mita” — the 218th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.