Lalitha

Girls' name

Form of Lalita

Lalitha has been given to 101 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 2005, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Lalitha, 2024

1 in 669,000

Lalitha over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lalitha: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Lalita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lalitha means

Lalitha is a form of Lalita.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lalitha is used in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lalitha → Lalita → ललित. The family’s meaning is “sport, dalliance, artlessness, grace, charm”, recorded in Sanskrit with the source elements ललित.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lalita.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 101 girls were recorded with the name Lalitha between 1969 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2005; its best national rank was #8,053 in 1969.

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 Lalitha?

Lalitha 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 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lalitha 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lalitha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lalithas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lalitha was born before 2011 — so the typical Lalitha is around 14 today.

Median birth year: 2011; About 14 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 42.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 95.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 101; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Lalitha 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2005 (9)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,053; 1969

Spellings of Lalitha

Lalitha is not the most common spelling — Tabitha is, with 28.4% against Lalitha's 0.05%.

Tabitha28.4%59,200
Alisha27.3%56,996
Latisha8.8%18,406
Lilith6.5%13,534
Lakisha5.9%12,310
Lolita4.1%8,664
Aletha3.3%6,948
Lanita1.8%3,721

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.

Lalitha around the world

Where Lalitha 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
2014–2019
#5,591
in 2019
France
2009–2022
#6,217
in 2022
South Australia
1971–2008
#796
in 2008

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

Lalitha 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: —
Best rank ever: #8,053; 1969
Peak year: 2005; 9 that year
First recorded: 1969
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 101
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lalitha

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

Ishitha Renatha Lalania Lalanya Laleh Lalaine Lalaina Nishtha Lalisa Lalani Lalonnie Yuktha Laloni Amrutha Lalinda Euretha Amritha Lalana Deletha Lolitha Anwitha Doratha Mahitha Srihitha

Sibling names for Lalitha

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

For a sister

Jaci Yahaira Pilar Anisa Jamya Yajaira Anjali Anneliese

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Kenyon Paulo Yair Kadin Tye

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