Orit
A Hebrew name meaning "light". In Poland it stays rare: about 120 women carry it, all of them, and no girls were given it last year.
Orit Pronunciation
Orit is pronounced O-reet (/ˈɔrit/).
What Orit means
Where Orit comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Orit comes from the Hebrew word or, meaning light. The name is feminine, and it belongs to Jewish naming custom, where terms for brightness have served as given names for centuries. Its short meaning stays close to the root. In Polish that meaning is światło.
The root sits inside a small family of Hebrew names, among them Ora, Liora and Meir, all built on the same idea of light. Orit takes the plain noun or and adds a feminine ending. So the name is, quite literally, a word for light that a person can answer to.
The root is or.
On a Polish class register Orit would look short and unfamiliar, set between a Zuzanna and a Maja. It has no Polish name-day, and no diminutive has grown up around it here. A teacher reading it aloud meets four letters and one meaning: światło, light.
How many people are named Orit
1 in 186313 women in Poland is named Orit. 121 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3057 among female names.
Orit as a middle name
Orit is a first name for 121 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2460th, between Olszyna (10) and Philippa (10).