Comments (Meaning / History Only)
In Eastern Europe, this is most likely a variant of Melitta, a variant of Melissa. (Although in the case of Princess Victoria Melita, it was indeed derived from Malta, which was her birthplace.)
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Melit also means "honey" in Indo-European.
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Comes from "meli, -itos" (i.e., "honey" in Greek). Its meaning is "a girl who is as good/sweet as honey".
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Melite (or Melita) was the name of several figures from Greek mythology. [noted -ed]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melite_(mythology) (in English; mentions Melita)
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=*meli%2Fth&la=greek&can=*meli%2Fth (in English; this is about the name Melite)
- http://clas-lgpn2.classics.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/lgpn_search.cgi?namenoaccents=%CE%9C%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B7 (in English; this is a list of real-life bearers from ancient Greece)
- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=me%2Fli&la=greek&can=me%2Fli (in English)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B9 (in English; see the inflection table, which mentions 'melitos')
- Ancient Greek words starting with melit-: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?type=start&lookup=melit&lang=greek (in English)
With that said: the name Melita is also used in the modern country of Georgia. There, it was originally a contraction of Melitona, the feminine form of the aforementioned name Meliton. The Georgians write Melita as მელიტა in their language.
- http://kids.ge/baby-name?id=153 (in Georgian)
- http://www.geogen.ge/ge/wsearch/4315/ (in Georgian; scroll down to the entry for Melita)
- (general): https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=Melita&last=&search=Zoeken
- general search for Melita: https://www.facebook.com/search/people/?q=melita (might also want to add a keyword like "Tbilisi" in order to make it easier to find Georgian bearers)
- general search for მელიტა (Melita): https://www.facebook.com/search/people/?q=მელიტა