Zalitis

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Plg. Zalitas (žr.). Iš lat

Zalitis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 234K
  • SESweden1 in 567K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Latvia (inferred from the name graph)

≈410 people, est.

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zālītis in LV Latvia, EE Estonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Lithuanian

Plg. Zalitas (žr.). Iš lat. Zalitis (LAG 28, 31, 32 ir kt.), Zalits (ten pat, 22, 32, 42 ir kt.). _ ZALIUMAS Lž. Plg, Žaliumas (žr.). Ц * 7 ZALIZAUSKAS Čk. Plg. Zališauskas, Žališauskis (žr.). = ^ ZALKAUSKAS Drsk. Plg. lat. Zalkovskis (LAG 329, 340, 365). Dar žr. Zelkevičius.

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zalitis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Zalitis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#50≈410 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Zālītis39
US United States—≈41 est.≈1 in 8MlistedZalitis28
GB United Kingdom—≈20 est.≈1 in 3.2M9Zalitis20
SE Sweden—181 in 567K18Zalitis4
AU Australia—≈16 est.≈1 in 1.6M—Zalitis18
EE Estonia—≈5 est.≈1 in 234KlistedZālītis3
NO Norway—51 in 1.1M5—2

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zalitis is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Zālītis, Zaliṭis

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Latvia, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Залитис, Zālītis

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zālītis

  • French name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zālītis

  • a separate surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Zālītis

17 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Jānis Zālītis, b. 1884Māra Zālīte, b. 1952Dominique Zalitis, b. 1972

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalGodātais/Godātā Zalitis,Dear Zalitis, (English)
InformalGodātais/Godātā Zalitis,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Zalitis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—18#27,404
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20029#154,387
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—5#68,919
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Zalitis mean?
Recorded meaning: Plg. Zalitas (žr.). Iš lat.
In which country does Zalitis have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 410 people named Zalitis in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zālītis.
How common is the name Zalitis?
In Sweden, the national register counted 18 people named Zalitis, about 1 in 567 thousand residents.
How common is Zalitis compared with other names?
In Latvia, Zalitis is the 50th most common surname of 60,294 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zalitis” — the 50th most common surname in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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