Fun Facts About the Name Yitty
- More than 1 thousand babies named Yitty: U.S. records list 1,942 babies given the name Yitty from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Yitty Mean?
Yitty is a Yiddish feminine name used as a familiar, affectionate form. It is most often explained as a pet form of Yehudis, the Yiddish form of the Hebrew name Yehudit. Yehudit is the feminine of Hebrew Yehudi, "Jew," which in turn comes from Yehudah (Judah), the name of the biblical tribe and territory. The literal sense is "belonging to Judah" or "Judean"; the customary sense in both Hebrew and Yiddish is "Jewish woman."
The same base also appears in the shorter Yiddish name Ita, sometimes spelled Yita, and Yitty is used as a pet form of that name as well. The origin of Ita is not settled; it may be a shortened form of Yehudis or an independent Yiddish name. The two explanations therefore are not mutually exclusive.
Yitty Name History & Origins
The Hebrew name Yehudit appears in the Bible: in Genesis 26:34 as the name of a Hittite woman who married Esau, and more famously in the Book of Judith, the story of a widow who saves her town from Holofernes. Greek and Latin forms of the name (Ioudith, Iudith) produced the English Judith.
In Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi communities the Hebrew name took the form Yehudis. Shorter, more intimate forms developed alongside it, and Yitty belongs to that group. Yiddish has a stock of diminutive endings, including -ke, -l, and -ele, and familiar forms of women's names were commonly used as everyday names. The spelling Yitty, with its doubled t and final y, represents a Yiddish pronunciation in English letters rather than a Hebrew one; the name is written in the Hebrew alphabet.
Yehudis and its shortened forms were carried by Ashkenazi Jews through central and eastern Europe and, from the late nineteenth century onward, to North America, Britain, and Palestine and later Israel. The name is now heard mainly in Jewish communities where Yiddish is used or remembered, particularly Hasidic ones.
How Popular is the Name Yitty?
Yitty has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #1,579 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,579 | 134 | 0.0083% |
| 2024 | #1,722 | 118 | 0.0073% |
| 2023 | #1,999 | 99 | 0.0062% |
| 2022 | #2,018 | 97 | 0.0059% |
| 2021 | #2,169 | 87 | 0.0053% |
| 2020 | #1,751 | 115 | 0.0071% |
| 2019 | #2,592 | 68 | 0.0041% |
| 2018 | #2,672 | 65 | 0.0038% |
| 2017 | #2,399 | 76 | 0.0044% |
| 2016 | #2,365 | 80 | 0.0045% |
| 2015 | #2,710 | 66 | 0.0037% |
| 2014 | #2,350 | 79 | 0.0044% |
| 2013 | #2,725 | 64 | 0.0036% |
| 2012 | #3,166 | 53 | 0.0030% |
| 2011 | #3,049 | 56 | 0.0032% |
| 2010 | #3,956 | 39 | 0.0022% |
| 2009 | #4,926 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 2008 | #3,473 | 48 | 0.0025% |
| 2007 | #4,294 | 36 | 0.0019% |
| 2006 | #4,456 | 33 | 0.0017% |
| 2005 | #4,700 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2004 | #4,281 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 2003 | #3,868 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 2002 | #4,177 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 2001 | #5,005 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2000 | #4,523 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 1999 | #4,198 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 1998 | #3,828 | 31 | 0.0018% |
| 1997 | #4,006 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 1996 | #11,780 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1995 | #7,032 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1994 | #6,311 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1993 | #6,260 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1992 | #6,005 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1991 | #13,123 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1990 | #5,280 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 1989 | #6,951 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1988 | #7,109 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1987 | #7,346 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1986 | #4,722 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 1985 | #6,950 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1984 | #7,392 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1983 | #9,007 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1982 | #8,212 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1981 | #12,176 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1980 | #6,313 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 1979 | #10,194 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1978 | #9,738 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1976 | #9,276 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1975 | #10,599 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1974 | #7,672 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1971 | #8,312 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1970 | #7,984 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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