Alita

Where Alita comes from

From Spanish Alita.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alita
  • Spanish
  • Vowel-ended
Alita through the years
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,265 among girls with 10 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2019
    Around this time: Alita: Battle Angel
    Film, 2019 · Source
  3. 2020
    Peak, #1,256
    181 babies named Alita, the most in any year.
  4. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,256.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.