Given name · also Sanskrit
Lalita
“a playful and charming woman”
Lalita is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “a playful and charming woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “a playful and charming woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
How it developed
The name draws on Sanskrit lalita, meaning “playful, amorous, charming”.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1947. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lalita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 782
- 0 boys · 782 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −22%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 32 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,803 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.
Lalita’s family of names
Lalita has a related form in Lalit. Lalita has a related form in Laleata. Lalita has a related form in Laleatah.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 14
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Lalitvariant
- Lallitalikely variant
- Lalittalikely variant
- Laleatahvariant
- Laleatavariant
- Lalietahvariant
- Lalietavariant
- Laleitahvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lalita
- Lalita LajmiIndian painter (1932–2023)
- Lalita VakilIndian textile artist
- P. Lalita KumariTelugu writerborn 1950
- Lalita PanyopasThai actressborn 1971
- Lalita SehrawatIndian wrestlerborn 1994
- Lalita TademyAmerican authorborn 1948
- Lalita RamakrishnanAmerican microbiologistborn 1959
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Lalita, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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