Zyta
A Latin name that means simply "girl" or "young woman". Only around 2,800 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one, though a few newborn girls still get it each year.
Zyta Pronunciation
Zyta is pronounced ZIH-tah (/ˈzɨta/).
What Zyta means
Where Zyta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zyta comes from Latin, and its short meaning is plain: girl, young woman. In Polish that reads as dziewczyna, a word for someone at the start of her life.
The name reached Poland through Saint Zita of Lucca, a servant in a Tuscan household in the thirteenth century who became the patron of maids and domestic workers. Her cult spread north, and the Latin form Zita settled into Polish spelling as Zyta. Polish calendars mark her imieniny on the twenty-seventh of April.
On a class register in a Polish school, Zyta sits short and sure among longer names. It has no diminutives to soften it and no masculine twin to answer it. The name means what it means. A girl, a young woman, dziewczyna.
How many people are named Zyta
1 in 7994 women in Poland is named Zyta. 2,820 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #608 among female names.
Zyta's popularity over time
5 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #986 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2015. Still the #608 name among living women, even as it slips to #986 among newborns.
Where Zyta is most popular
Zyta is most popular in Lesser Poland, 535% above the national average (6 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+217%).
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Lesser Poland6 girls born+535%
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Silesian3 girls born+217%
Zyta as a middle name
Zyta is a first name for 2,820 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,934, a 59/41 split — almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 196th, between Eryka (1,969) and Mia (1,930).
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194
1,977Donata
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195
1,969Eryka
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1961,934Zyta
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197
1,930Mia
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198
1,906Hildegarda
When Zyta celebrates name day
Zyta appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 27 April.