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
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
Mita is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 76th most common given name.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.8K
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 34Kfew records
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. 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)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 named Amita, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Amrita in IN India, BR Brazil, GY Guyana, Mitu in BD Bangladesh, Мита in BG Bulgaria and Amita in ID Indonesia.
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.
Cited for this meaning 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #344 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 151 | Amrita | 213 |
| BD Bangladesh | #218 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Mitu | 58 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | listed | Amita | 61 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | אמיטה | 3 |
| BG Bulgaria | #665 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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. 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 Mohib. 1939NZNew Zealand rugby league footballer and coach
- Mita Medicib. 1950ITItalian singer and actress
- Mita Marrab. 1972ITeconomist
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)64 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
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.
- Is Mita a male or female name?
- Mita is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- 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
- Which countries have the most people named Mita?
- Mondonomo estimates about 287 thousand people named Amita in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Bulgaria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 India, Mita is the 344th most common given name of 3,760,348 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 344th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.