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Girl · Italian

Zita

Say it: TSEE-tah

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Meaning

From an old Tuscan word zita 'girl, young woman'.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Its wave through time

Fading since the 1900s

In the United States

05010018801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1884per million babies of that sex
  • 2,911 babies given this name since 1882
  • At its height in 1901, about 1 in 14,100 girls
  • 14 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
  2. Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914

Used by

Italian

Famous bearers

  • St Zita of Lucca, patron of domestic workers

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Where this comes from

  • Calendars of saints and name days
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.