Zita

Zita is an Italian girl’s name meaning ‘little girl’. It is derived from the Italian word ‘zita’, a Tuscan term for a young girl. Saint Zita of Lucca, a thirteenth-century servant who worked for one family for most of her life, is the patron saint of domestic workers, and her feast is kept on the twenty-seventh of April. Another bearer was Zita of Bourbon-Parma, the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, wife of Emperor Charles I.