Olita

Girls' name

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Olita has been given to 142 babies in the U.S. since 1906. 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 1917, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Olita, 1973

1 in 603,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Olita: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Olita means

Olita is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Olita is used in Latvian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 142 girls were recorded with the name Olita between 1906 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,892 in 1906.

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 Olita?

Olita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1973: 1 in 603,000; 5 of 3,016,706 births
Among girls only: 1 in 292,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1973: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 418,205 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Olita 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 1973 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 418,205 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Olitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Olita was born before 1927 — so the typical Olita is around 98 today.

Median birth year: 1927; About 98 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 22.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 32; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Olita 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 1917 (11)
Years since peak: 108; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,892; 1906

Spellings of Olita

Olita is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 34.5% against Olita's <0.01%.

Lisa34.5%967,229
Olivia20.3%567,345
Rita10.2%284,452
Anita7.7%215,165
Lila2.7%76,493
Eliza2.5%70,569
Olive2.4%66,926
Olga2.2%61,872

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 Olita is used

Across 1910–2025, Olita was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 241,986 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Louisiana1 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. Olita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Olita 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: #1,892; 1906
Peak year: 1917; 11 that year
First recorded: 1906
Last recorded: 1973
All-time count: 142
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Olita

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

Olina Olivet Oliana Oliwia Ghita Olivya Olivine Olisa Oline Olivea Aelita Oliver Olia Azita Quita Smita Akita Olimpia Oliva Talita Keita Armita Inita Olivene

Sibling names for Olita

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

Albina Nelle Antonette Harriette Winnifred Maurine Johnie Dovie

For a brother

Regis Meyer Rosario Lyman Winfield Dorsey Granville Abe

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