MEANING & HISTORY
What does Cita mean?
Cita is explicitly recorded as short for Pacita in Cebuano. Pacita is the Spanish familiar form of Paz, peace, in the consulted name account.
That is a sequence of personal-name shortening, not proof that the ordinary Spanish word cita, appointment or quotation, supplied this name.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
Short for Pacita.
a diminutive of the female given name Pacita
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Cita
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Cita Astals
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Cita Astals
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Cita in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Related forms & spellings
Related forms may have their own language histories. They are not included in this spelling’s PSA count.
Similar names to Cita
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Cina♀Short form of Eufrocina
- Lita♀Short form of names ending in -lita
- Nita·Short form of Anita or other -nita names
- Rita♀Short form of Margherita and other -rita names
- Sita♀Sanskrit furrow-name or Philippine nickname
- Tita♀Familiar form of Marta; also feminine of Tito
- Zita♀Tuscan little girl; separately a Hungarian Felicitás diminutive
- Alita·Name compared with Alethea or shortened from Adelita
What rhymes with Cita?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Cita further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q28750918 — Cita (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Cita Astals (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q28750918 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Cita (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Nameberry editorial entry — Pacita (opens in a new tab)
Actually consulted exact-name entry explicitly identifies a Spanish diminutive of Paz, peace; secondary onomastic reference, not peer-reviewed root research or a frequency source.