Entry № 11369 · Latin origin

Vita Vita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Life"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "life".

Vita comes from the Latin vita, meaning "life." Used as a given name since the medieval period, particularly in Italy and Scandinavia.

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), the English writer and lover of Virginia Woolf (who based Orlando on her), is the most famous bearer. Today Vita is rising slowly as part of the broader vintage Latin revival.

Life. Vita Sackville-West.

The name in its native script.

Vita
Transliteration
Vita
Pronunciation
/ ˈviː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vita stands.

Vita 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.

Vitas before her.

Real people
Vita Sackville-West
English writer.
1892 – 1962
In fiction
Vita
Inspiration for Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
1928 novel

Names connected to Vita.

The number behind Vita.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vita reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.