Ita
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A kind of palm tree (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈaɪˈtiˈeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ita is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 14K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 37K
- SISlovenia1 in 50K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
1,128 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘thirst’; associated with St Ita of Killeedy, Co. Limerick.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ita is read(measured from records)
Ita is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English54%
A kind of palm tree (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian12%
Used to mark online content or communities in Italian language
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ita counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,128 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); SURS — resident population given names; e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ita is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, ‘thirst’; associated with St Ita of Killeedy, Co. Limerick.
as a nameIrish first names
Irish: Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Ide (pronounced ‘ee-da’, of uncertain origin (possibly connected with Old Irish itu ‘thirst’). This name was borne by a 6th-century saint who founded a convent in Limerick.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
shining; bright; sharp; clean; wonderful.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
The invited one.
as a nameThe African book of names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ita von Lothringenb. 995medieval countess, progenetrix of the Habsburg dynasty
- Judith of Babenbergb. 1115DEnot in their usual nameItalian noble, Margravinne of Montferrat
- Ita Wegmanb. 1876NLDutch physician
- Ita Rinab. 1907SISlovenian actress (1907-1979)
- Ita Everb. 1931EEEstonian actress (1931-2023)
- Ita Buttroseb. 1942AUAustralian journalist and businesswoman
- Ita Kozakiewiczb. 1955LVLatvian journalist and politician (1955-1990)
- Ita Purnamasarib. 1967IDIndonesian singer and actress
- Ita Martadinata Haryonob. 1981IDIndonesian activist
- Hope Akpanb. 1991GBnot in their usual nameNigerian footballer (born 1991)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.2K | #8,142 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 903 | #7,626 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 802 | #13,879 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 225 | #7,626 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 137 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 136 | #1,046 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 127 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 117 | #1,405 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 117 | #1,405 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 115 | #1,517 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 79 | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Ita come from?
- ‘thirst’; associated with St Ita of Killeedy, Co. Limerick. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How do you pronounce Ita?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈaɪˈtiˈeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ita mean?
- In English, A kind of palm tree (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco.
- In which country does Ita have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Ita, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ita most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ita is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ita?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,128 people named Ita in 2022, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ita?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/itaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ita”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.