Entry № 11984 · Italian origin

Zita Zita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Little girl, maiden"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "little girl, maiden".

Zita comes from the medieval Italian and Tuscan dialect word for "little girl" or "maiden." Saint Zita of Lucca (1212-1272) was a humble Italian servant who became the patron saint of domestic workers.

Maiden. The patron saint of domestic workers.

The name in its native script.

Zita
Transliteration
Zita
Pronunciation
/ ˈziː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zita stands.

Zita 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.

Zitas before her.

Real people
Saint Zita
Patron of domestic workers.
1212 – 1272
Empress Zita
Last Austrian empress.
1892 – 1989
In fiction
Zita
Common in Italian fiction.

Names connected to Zita.

The number behind Zita.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zita reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.