Zita

Where Zita comes from

Zita hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #813 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #640
    11 babies named Zita — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1892
    Zita of Bourbon-Parma born
    Empress of Austria from 1916 to 1918
  5. 1990
    Zita Hanrot born
    French film and television actress
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Zita of Bourbon-Parma · Empress of Austria from 1916 to 1918, 1892–1989
  • Zita Hanrot · French film and television actress, born 1990
  • Zita Johann · Austrian-American actress, 1904–1993
  • Zita Kabátová · Czech actress, 1913–2012
  • Zita Szucsánszki · Hungarian handball player, born 1987

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.