Zita is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning “a resident of Sidon.” In 2024 it was given to 11 girls in the United States.
Zita belongs to the Italian tradition. Its meaning — “a resident of Sidon” — is the sense carried by its Italian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Zita first appears in Social Security records in 1882. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #685 in 1884, and in 2024 11 babies received the name — 2,961 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Zita means “a resident of Sidon” in its Italian roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Zita is a girl name. In 2024, 11 babies received the name in the US.
Zita comes from the Italian tradition.
Zita first appears in US records in 1882. Its best-ever ranking was #685 in 1884, and 11 babies were given the name in 2024.
Zita is pronounced /web.archive.org/ (IPA).
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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