Entry № 11658 · Spanish origin

Yalitza Yalitza — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yah-LEET-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Yalitza Aparicio — first Indigenous Mexican Oscar Best Actress nominee"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Spanish)

A name that means "yalitza aparicio — first indigenous mexican oscar best actress nominee".

Yalitza is a 20th-century Latin American name of contested etymology — possibly from Mixtec or Zapotec roots, or a Spanish elaboration of Lita / Lupita. Before acting, she was studying to become a preschool teacher in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca. UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Indigenous Peoples (2019). Her Vogue Mexico September 2018 cover was the first time an Indigenous Mexican woman appeared on a Vogue cover anywhere in the world.

Subject of countless 2019 cultural-criticism profiles.

Yalitza Aparicio — first Indigenous Mexican Oscar Best Actress nominee — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Yalitza
Transliteration
Yalitza
Pronunciation
/ jəˈliːt.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yalitza stands.

Yalitza does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Yalitzas before her.

Real people
Yalitza Aparicio
Mexican Oscar-nominated actress.
born 1993
In fiction
Cleo
Cuarón's Roma.
2018

Names connected to Yalitza.

The number behind Yalitza.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yalitza reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.