Ritah
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ritah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Uganda it is the 100th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- KEKenya1 in 19K◐
- UGUganda1 in 2.5K
- ZMZambia1 in 10K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈27 ●
- Sources
- 49 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 4 countries
1.5K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | — | 1,545 | 361 rec. | — | — | Ritah | 19 |
| US United States | — | 227 | 206 rec. | — | — | Ritah | 49 |
| UG Uganda | #100 | 209 | 185 rec. | — | 9 | Ritah | 33 |
| ZM Zambia | #635 | 208 | 5 rec. | — | — | Ritah | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 188 | 189 rec. | — | — | Ritah | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 103 | 46 rec. | — | — | Ritah | 20 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 82 | 55 rec. | — | — | Ritah | 13 |
| AU Australia | — | 36 | 36 rec. | — | — | Ritah | 9 |
| BR Brazil | — | 27 | 21 rec. | — | — | Ritah | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 247 rec. | 1 in 537K | 19 | Ritah | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | 14 | 14 rec. | — | — | Ritah | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 13 | 16 rec. | — | — | Ritah | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili2.4K67%
- English40511%
- Malay1635%
- Indonesian1404%
- Arabic852%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 2,424 | 67% |
| English | 405 | 11% |
| Malay | 163 | 5% |
| Indonesian | 140 | 4% |
| Arabic | 85 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Ritah Asiimweb. 1986UGUgandan para badminton player
- Ritah Kivumbib. 1995UGUgandan association football player
- Ritah Imanishimweb. 1996UGUgandan basketball player (born 1996)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #17,844 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #25,581 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #9,541 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 10 | — |
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 9 | #109 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #14,699 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #17,814 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #17,815 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 30 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ritah?
- We estimate roughly 27 people bear Ritah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ritah have the most bearers?
- Ritah is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled ritah.
- How common is Ritah compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Ritah is the 100th most common given name of 2,022 given names recorded there.
- Is Ritah a male or female name?
- Ritah 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Ritah” — the 100th most common given name in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.