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Lalita

Girls' name

Sport, dalliance, artlessness, grace, charm, through ललित

Lalita has been given to 782 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1979, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Lalita, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lalita: meaning, origin, and history

Sport, dalliance, artlessness, grace, charm, through ललित

Sanskrit

What Lalita means

Lalita belongs to the name family reached through Lalita → ललित. Its meaning is “sport, dalliance, artlessness, grace, charm”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lalita is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Lalita comes through Sanskrit ललित.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ललित.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 782 girls were recorded with the name Lalita between 1947 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1979; its best national rank was #2,767 in 1979.

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 Lalita?

Lalita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lalita 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lalita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lalitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lalita was born before 1981 — so the typical Lalita is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
770
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1980s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (187).

Is Lalita 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (32)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,767
1979

Spellings of Lalita

Lalita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 29.0% against Lalita's 0.11%.

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 Lalita is used

Across 1910–2025, Lalita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,287,539 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. Lalita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lalita around the world

Where Lalita 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
    2000–2024
    #3,696
    in 2024
  • France
    1991–2022
    #4,968
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2010–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1983–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Lalita 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
#2,767
1979
Peak year
1979
32 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
782
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lalita

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

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Sibling names for Lalita

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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