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 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.
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.