Given name & surname
Zarita
“princess”
Zarita is a form of Sarah. Sarah means “princess” in Hebrew.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Zarita is a form of Sarah. Sarah means “princess” in Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
How it developed
Zarita is used as a form of Sarah. Zarita is a form of Sarah. The shared background comes through Sarah: In the biblical account, Sarai is renamed Sarah as part of a blessing. Later Irish and Scottish uses sometimes adopted Sarah in place of local Gaelic names, a separate practice from its Hebrew origin.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1958. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Zarita is a form of Sarah. The history of Sarah gives this family its wider story. Sarah is remembered in Genesis as Abraham’s wife and Isaac’s mother. Sarah’s later local adaptations included use for Sorcha in Ireland and Mor in Scotland, showing how an established biblical name could serve different naming traditions.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Zarita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 14
- 0 boys · 14 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 7 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 7 in 1974. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zarita’s family of names
Zarita is a form of Sarah. Zarita has a related form in Zareata. Zarita has a related form in Zareate.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 14
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Zarritalikely variant
- Zareitahvariant
- Zareitavariant
- Zarietahvariant
- Zarietavariant
- Zareatevariant
- Zarytevariant
- Zareetevariant
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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.
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