MEANING & HISTORY
What does Sarita mean?
Sarita has a Spanish formation as a diminutive of Sara. It also has an independent South Asian account from Sanskrit sarita, with flowing in the onomastic gloss and river in related Hindi vocabulary.
The written Hindi dictionary explicitly documents both the ordinary word and a female name. These are distinct origins, so river should not replace the Spanish familiar-name account. The relevant language and original script help determine which history a family intends.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
EnglishEtymology & source
Borrowed from Sanskrit सरिता (saritā).
A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
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SpanishEtymology & source
a diminutive of the female given name Sara
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People with the name Sarita
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
Sarita Pérez de Tagle
Filipino actress
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
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Sarita Pérez de Tagle
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Sarita 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 →
Similar names to Sarita
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
- Marita♀A diminutive name in the Maria and Margaret families
- Sarina♀Diminutive of Sara; sometimes a Serena variant
- Alita·Name compared with Alethea or shortened from Adelita
- Anita♀Spanish diminutive of Ana
- Charita·Latinate Charity form; a separate Charis association is recorded
- Clarita♀Clear; bright, through Clara
- Danita♀Feminine diminutive of Daniel
- Lorita·Possibly a variant in the Loreto family
What rhymes with Sarita?
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Explore Sarita further
Follow the sources
- Wikidata given-name item Q18760967 — Sarita (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Sarita Pérez de Tagle (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18760967 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Sarita (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary contributors — Sarita (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Behind the Name — Sarita-1 (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Sarita-2 (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Wiktionary contributors — सरिता (Hindi) (opens in a new tab)
Live entry records river/stream noun, borrowing from Sanskrit, and separate female given-name sense; distinct from Spanish Sara diminutive.