Given name
Elita
“the chosen one”
Elita is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “the chosen one.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “the chosen one.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Elita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 551
- 0 boys · 551 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −32%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 13 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1975. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 758 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Elita’s family of names
Elita has a related form in Electa. Elita has a related form in Eleta. Elita has a related form in Elekta.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Electavariant
- Eletavariant
- Ellitalikely variant
- Elittalikely variant
- Elektavariant
- Eliteavariant
- Elitiavariant
- Eletahvariant
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Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Elita
- Elita LöfbladSwedish modelborn 1980
- Elita KļaviņaLatvian actressborn 1966
- Elita VeidemaneLatvian journalist, publicist and public worker (born 1955)
- Elita KrūmiņaLatvian economistborn 1965
- Elita Proctor OtisAmerican actress1860–1927
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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