Given name & surname
Tita
“holding a title of honor”
Tita is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “holding a title of honor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “holding a title of honor.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
In English use, Tita may be used as a shortened form of MartiTa. This connection is uncertain.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 236
- 0 boys · 236 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 21 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 2004. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 21 in 1975. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,136 as a first name in 2020; 364 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.
Tita’s family of names
Tita is a short form of Martita. In Italian usage, Tita is a feminine form of Tito. Tita has a related form in Teata.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Tita
- Tita DuranFilipino actress (1929–1990)1928–1990
- Tita AidaHIV/AIDS Activist
- Tita von HardenbergGerman television presenterborn 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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