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Girl · Italian, from Latin
Concetta
Say it: kon-CHET-tah
Meaning
From the Marian title Immacolata Concezione (Immaculate Conception).
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Very common in southern Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1910s
In the United States
- 14,137 babies given this name since 1887
- At its height in 1914, about 1 in 2,500 girls
- 12 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- Parish baptism registers
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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