Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aelita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 103
- 0 boys · 103 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #10,940 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +43%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,940 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aelita’s family of names
In English usage, Aelita has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Аэли́та. In Italian usage, Aelita has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Аэлита. In English usage, Aelita has a conventional equivalent in the Arabic form إِيلِيتَا.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Aelita has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aelita
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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