Given name & surname
Larita
“lara”·“one who is protected; a cheerful woman”
Larita is a variant of Lara. Interpretations include “lara” and “one who is protected; a cheerful woman” (Latin). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Larita is a variant of Lara. Interpretations include “lara” and “one who is protected; a cheerful woman” (Latin). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
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. Larita is a variant of Lara. The history of Lara gives this family its wider story. Lara is a principal character in Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. The 1965 film helped bring this form of Larissa to a wider audience, and Maurice Jarre’s Lara’s Theme became another association with the name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Larita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,649
- 0 boys · 1,649 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 79 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 girls is 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 79 in 1957. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,279 as a first name in 2020; 110 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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