Alita is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Alita is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Alita. In the SmartGenius ranking, Alita is #2,542 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alita.
While Alita isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to be attracting more and more parents in the 21st century. In 2020 the name Alita reached its highest popularity with #1,140 in our ranking of all female first names. Because it's so exquisite, moms and dads haven't always thought of naming their daughter Alita (or at least not more than four in some years as there must be at least five girls named Alita to appear in the official statistics). Using these criteria, the first name Alita has been given to babies in 107 of the 143 years since records began, making girls with this name still very special today.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alita was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 107 babies were born with the name Alita. This puts the name in rank 1,691 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 1,385,345 newborns was named Alita that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Alita has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Alita are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Alita is registered in 17 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Alita live in Washington, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 98,401 would turn around if you called the name Alita across Washington.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Alita is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Alita and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alita, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Tiger
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alita
Alita
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
I
T
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
L
I
T
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alita sounds like this:
