Alita comes from the English / German tradition, meaning Noble.
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How popular is Alita?
2020peak year
Today, Alita is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #4863), with only about 83 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 2020, 181 babies were given the name (ranked #1255 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 2020s. Alita has been trending upward in recent years. In all, around 2,527 babies have been registered as Alita since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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