About the name Lita
Lita belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Lita first appears in Social Security records in 1888. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #698 in 1927, and in 2024 13 babies received the name — 4,427 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.