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Elita

Girls' name

Possibly elite

Elita has been given to 551 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Elita, 2024

1 in 257,000

Elita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elita: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly elite

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elita means

Elita may mean “elite”, associated with élite.

Origin, language, and formation

Elita is used in Latvian.

Elita comes through French élite.

Elita is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 551 girls were recorded with the name Elita between 1919 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1975; its best national rank was #3,951 in 1919.

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 Elita?

Elita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 257,000
13 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 125,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
178,236 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elita 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 2024 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 178,236 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elita was born before 1983 — so the typical Elita is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
21.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
514
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 21.1% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Elita 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (16)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,951
1919

Spellings of Elita

Elita is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 25.3% against Elita's 0.01%.

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 Elita is used

Across 1910–2025, Elita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Elita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Elita around the world

Where Elita 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
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2009–2009
    #893
    in 2009
  • France
    2004–2007
    #6,231
    in 2007
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1961–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Elita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,951
1919
Peak year
1975
16 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
551
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elita

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

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Sibling names for Elita

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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