Ryta
Fewer than 500 Polish women carry it, and the records show none given since at least 2000: most Poles have never met a Ryta. From Latin, the name means "pearl".
Ryta Pronunciation
Ryta is pronounced RIH-tah (/ˈrɨta/).
What Ryta means
Where Ryta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ryta comes into Polish from Latin, clipped down from Margarita, and margarita is simply the Latin word for pearl. The pearl was never mined or cut. It grows inside a living shell, layer over layer, which makes it a slightly odd thing to name a person after and also a fitting one.
Alongside Ryta sits the variant Rita, the same name with a lighter step. Both point back to one Latin root and one short meaning, perła in Polish, pearl in English.
In the Polish calendar Ryta keeps her imieniny on the 22nd of May, the feast of Rita of Cascia, a documented fourteenth-century figure whose Italian name was itself a form of Margherita. So a girl signing that date on a form at the urząd is writing a word that has meant pearl since Rome.
When Ryta celebrates name day
Ryta appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 22 May.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Ryta
1 in 46196 women in Poland is named Ryta. 488 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1327 among female names.
Ryta as a middle name
Ryta is a first name for 488 women in Poland and a middle name for another 165, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 521st, between Selena (168) and Konstantyna (164).
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#519 Astrid169
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#520 Selena168
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#521 Ryta165
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#522 Konstantyna164
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#523 Roxana163