Jolita
One of the rarest names on the register: only about 70 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one. It comes from Lithuanian, where it reads as joyful and full of life.
Jolita Pronunciation
Jolita is pronounced yo-LEE-tah (/jɔˈlita/).
What Jolita means
Where Jolita comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jolita is a Lithuanian name. The Lithuanian language gives it its shape, and the meaning set down for it is joyful, happy. A child called Jolita holds a small word for gladness in her own name.
Lithuanian keeps many feminine names built on this soft -ita ending, and Jolita sits among them, warm and easy for a Polish ear to say. The sense of joy here is the plain meaning of the name, not a gloss added later. It reads as radość from the start.
Picture a Polish class register. The name stands between a Julia and a Kinga, and when a teacher reads Jolita aloud, the room meets a name that came across the northern border. Its origin is Lithuanian, its meaning joyful.
How many people are named Jolita
1 in 317519 women in Poland is named Jolita. 71 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4273 among female names.
Jolita as a middle name
Jolita is a first name for 71 women in Poland and a middle name for another 24, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1455th, between Jolantyna (24) and Juana (24).
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#1453 Jeannette24
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#1454 Jolantyna24
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#1455 Jolita24
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#1456 Juana24
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#1457 Jurata24