Lalita (ललिता) is a Sanskrit name meaning "playful," "charming," or "graceful." It is one of the principal names of the goddess Devi in Hindu Shaktism — specifically referring to Lalita Tripura Sundari, "the playful beauty of the three worlds," considered the supreme manifestation of the goddess.
Lalita is widely used across India. The Sanskrit name carries the meaning of someone whose grace comes through spontaneous play rather than effort.
Lalita does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lalita reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.