Given name
Lalit
“one who is simple and handsome”
Lalit is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “one who is simple and handsome.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who is simple and handsome.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
How it developed
From Sanskrit ललित (“beautiful, lovely, graceful”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lalit through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 834 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.
Lalit’s family of names
Lalit has a related form in Lalita. Lalit has a related form in Laleat. Lalit has a related form in Laleet.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lalit
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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