Girl · Spanish, from Hebrew
Anita
Say it: ah-NEE-tah
Meaning
A Spanish and Portuguese diminutive of Ana (Anna).
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1950s
In the United States
- 215,041 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1958, about 1 in 348 girls
- 137 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian-born wife and comrade of Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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