Wita
Just 79 women in Poland carry it, so most people have never met a Wita. The name comes from the Latin vitus: willing, lively, full of life.
Wita Pronunciation
Wita is pronounced VEE-tah (/ˈvita/).
What Wita means
Where Wita comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wita comes from Latin. Its source is vitus, a word tied to willingness and to a life kept in motion, which Polish renders as ochoczy, chętny, pełen życia. The same root stands behind the Latin name Vitus, borne by a third-century martyr whose feast the Church still keeps on 15 June. From that saint English took the phrase Saint Vitus's dance, an old name for a nervous disorder.
Around Wita sit close relatives. Witolda works as the fuller variant, and Witold carries the name across to boys. All three trace back to the same Latin root.
The name asks little of the tongue. A woman signing Wita on a form at the urząd writes four short letters that still mean chętny and pełen życia.
How many people are named Wita
1 in 285365 women in Poland is named Wita. 79 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4015 among female names.
Wita as a middle name
Wita is a first name for 79 women in Poland and a middle name for another 50, a 61/39 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 970th, between Tadiwanashe (50) and Zahra (50).
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#968 Nicoletta50
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#969 Tadiwanashe50
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#970 Wita50
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#971 Zahra50
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#972 Alisa49