At a Glance: Name: Aelita – Origin: modern literary coinage (Russian) – Gender: Girl – Pronunciation: ah-eh-LEE-tah
Aelita is a modern literary coinage (Russian) girl's name. It appears in 2 of our baby name lists.
Meaning & Origin of Aelita
Origin: modern literary coinage (Russian).
A common claim: said to mean 'light' or 'from the sun' Actually: Aelita doesn't come from a word meaning 'sunlight' — it was coined by Aleksei Tolstoy for his novel, not derived from an existing word.
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Aelita
Phonetic: ah-eh-LEE-tah
Popularity of Aelita
Aelita doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
Lists That Include Aelita
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