Ita
Barely 120 people in Poland carry Ita, so most have never met one. The name is Hebrew, tied to a word for thirst.
Ita Pronunciation
Ita is pronounced EE-tah (/ˈita/).
What Ita means
Where Ita comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ita begins in Hebrew, where its oldest recorded sense is thirst. The word points to want, to a body that needs water. That is a plain, physical root for a name. It brings no borrowed grandeur, only the Hebrew sense of longing for water.
The Polish gloss reads differently. Here Ita is given as czujna, bacząca, watchful and attentive. That reading came later, layered onto the sound rather than drawn from the Hebrew root. Thirst and watchfulness sit close together, since a thirsty creature stays alert to any sign of water.
On a Polish class register the name is short, just four letters. It has no diminutive of its own and no listed variant. What a child named Ita carries is the Hebrew root: thirst, and the later Polish sense of one who watches.
How many people are named Ita
1 in 192682 women in Poland is named Ita. 119 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3088 among female names.
Ita's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Ita is most popular
Ita is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Ita as a middle name
Ita is a first name for 119 women in Poland and a middle name for another 49, a 71/29 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 977th, between Estelle (49) and Janine (49).