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Alita

#2,257 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Alethea

Alita has been given to 2,608 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #2,257 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 181 recorded.

Babies named Alita, 2025

1 in 40,900

Alita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alita: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Alethea

Spanish

What Alita means

Alita is a variant of Alethea.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Alita → Alethea. The family’s meaning is “truth”, recorded in the naming reference for Alethea.

Origin, language, and formation

Alita is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Alita comes through Spanish Alita.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alethea.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,608 girls were recorded with the name Alita between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 181 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,256 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,256 in 2020 to #2,257 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,923 in 2015 to #2,257 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alita?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 40,900
81 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,257
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,370 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alita sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,370 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alita was born before 1990 — so the typical Alita is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,260
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (689).

Is Alita rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−158
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,001
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8,666
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
9.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.8%
Peak was 2020 (181)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
57.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,256
2020

Spellings of Alita

Alita is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 23.1% against Alita's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alita is used

Across 2016–2025, Alita was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 20,480 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 8,333
  2. 2California1 in 12,500
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 14,286
  4. 4Arizona1 in 16,667
  5. 5Washington1 in 16,667
  6. 6Florida1 in 20,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 20,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Alita around the world

Where Alita ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    2019–2025
    #4,506
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2001
    #711
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Alita in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Alita. Linked forms have their own page here.

LitaAlidaElita

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Alita by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,257
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,001
Best rank ever
#1,256
2020
Peak year
2020
181 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,608
Count in 2025
81

Names similar to Alita

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AliseAlidaAlizeAliahAlixAlisiaAlizahAlijahAliyaAlizaeAlizaAlicenAliyanaAlizayAlimaAlineAlicaEvitaAlianaAlisynAlinahAlinnaZitaJovita

Names with a curve like Alita

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Alita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Alita

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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