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Lita

#9,832 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Manoela

Lita has been given to 4,437 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #9,832 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 135 recorded.

Babies named Lita, 2025

1 in 332,000

Lita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lita: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Manoela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lita means

Lita is a diminutive of Manoela.

Origin, language, and formation

Lita is used in English, Cebuano, Galician, Lun Bawang and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Manoela.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,437 girls were recorded with the name Lita between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 135 in 1960; its best national rank was #698 in 1927.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,219 in 2020 to #9,832 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,261 in 2015 to #9,832 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 Lita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,832
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lita 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Litas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lita was born before 1958 — so the typical Lita is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
17.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,889
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1950s — 17.6% of all recorded uses (779).

Is Lita 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
−1,597
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,613
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,571
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.4%
Peak was 1960 (135)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#698
1927

Spellings of Lita

Lita is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 22.5% against Lita's 0.07%.

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 Lita is used

Across 1910–2025, Lita was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 89,907 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Alabama1 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. Lita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lita around the world

Where Lita 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
    2001–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2001
    #627
    in 2001
  • France
    1944–2023
    #7,559
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1996–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1958–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Lita

People whose public names include Lita, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lita in other languages

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

LataLetaLidaAlitaElitaLithaLittaLilitaLolitaMelitaPerlitaCarmelita

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

Lita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,832
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,613
Best rank ever
#698
1927
Peak year
1960
135 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,437
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Lita

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

LitzyVitaZitaNitaAlitaSaritaMaritaLanitaLupitaJovitaRositaEvitaGitaLolitaSitaJanitaNikitaBenitaItaLitziDonitaAmritaVenitaAdelita

Names with a curve like Lita

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

CarmaMaritaHerlindaVenitaDarlineJohnnyRomonaJoycelynEvonBernitaVernitaJeanetta

Sibling names for Lita

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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