Markita
Feminine · “pearl”
Marketa is the Czech Margaret, and this name is one letter away from it. Whether any American family meant that is another question — the spelling can equally be Mark with a Spanish ending on it, and the two readings have nothing to do with each other.
How old is the name Markita?
Markita first appears in US birth records in 1954 — 71 years ago. The typical Markita alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 2,400 people named Markita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Markita most popular?
Markita peaked in 1984, reaching #950 nationally. See the whole 1984 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Markita
Czech spells the name Marketa, with a long e, and it is entirely ordinary there — one of the standard Czech women's names, with its own saint and its own feast. The American Markita appears in the nineteen-fifties among a large group of names ending the same way, most of which were assembled rather than borrowed. So the same seven letters are, in one country, a thousand-year-old name and, in another, a mid-century construction. That happens more often than people expect, and it is usually invisible from either side.
Meaningscholars disagree
pearl
If the name is the Czech one, it descends from the Greek word for a pearl. If it was built on Mark with a borrowed ending, it descends from a Roman name about the god of war. Nothing distinguishes them.
Pronouncing Markita
mar-KEE-tuh
Three syllables with the weight in the middle. Czech puts the stress on the first syllable, as it does in every word.
Nicknames for Markita
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1954
- Most girls named
- 1984153 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #950reached in 1984
- Change vs 2015
- 0.0%6 in 2016, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Markita in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marketa in Czech — related form
Markitas among us
people named Markita are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Markita sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Every sound in it is easy in English and the spelling follows the sound.
- The stress in the middle gives it a lift most English names of its length do not have.
- It is a real name in Czech, which gives it ground most constructions do not have.
- Marquita and Markita are both in the record and will be confused.
- The Czech name and the American one share letters and nothing else.
- It reads clearly as a name of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Markitas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Markita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Markita in 2025?
- Markita is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Markita with classmates?
- Markita will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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