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Melita

What does Melita mean?

Melita Pronunciation of Melita as a girls' name is pronounced ma-LEE-tah. It is of Greek origin, and the meaning of Melita is "honey-sweet". Also used as short form of Carmelita (Spanish), or a feminine variant of Mellitus, a saint's name. Malita is also a variant of Maria. Also form of Carmel.

STARTS/ENDS WITH Mel-, -ta

ASSOCIATED WITH greek, saint

Variations

VARIANTS Malita, Malitta, Melida, Melitta, Melyta

RELATED FORM VIA CARMELITA, MARIA Marika

CREATIVE FORMS
(female)

(male)


MIDDLE NAME PAIRINGS
Melita Dior (M.D.), ..

How popular is Melita?

Melita is a somewhat popular first name for women (#3357 out of 4276, Top 79%) and an even more popular surname for all people (#57705 out of 150436, Top 38%). (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)

Which version is better?

Maria (#116 LAST YEAR), Carmel, Carmelita and Marika are the prominent variation forms of Melita (NOT RANKED) listed in the Top 2000. These relations of Melita reached the apex of their popularity in the 1970s (AVERAGE #1266) and are now much less common (#1529, 69.4%), with forms like Maria becoming somewhat outmoded. (2018 BIRTH STATISTICS)



Top 2000 baby names ranking of Carmel, Carmelita, Maria, Marika in U.S.

Top 100 baby names ranking of Maria outside U.S.

Similar Names

Recommended sound-alike names are Amelita, Belia, Bellita, Benita, Celia, Celida, Celina, Delia, Delila, Deliza, Dellta (see Delta), Delta, Denita, Elita, Ellita, Emelita, Felina, Felipa, Felisa, Feliza, Gelila, Helima, Helisa, Jelina, Jenita, Julita, Kelila, Lalita, Lelia, Lenita, Lolita, Malika, Malitia, Marita, Media, Medina, Meica, Meira, Melaina, Melba, Melia, Melicia, Melina, Meliora, Melise, Melisha, Melissa, Melitia, Mellba, Mellisa, Melodi, Melodia, Melody, Melosa, Melva, Melvina, Melya, Merlina, Meta, Nelia, Nenita, Pelia, Pelipa, Perita, Perlita, Renita, Selia, Selima, Selina, Serita, Talita, Velika, Venita, Zelia and Zelina. These names tend to be less frequently used than Melita.

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