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Anita

Pronounced /əˈniːtə/

Rank in 2024
#1,466
Born in 2024
149
Peak year
1957 · #81
Origin
Spanish

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 149 girls were named Anita, about 1 in every 10,827.
  • It peaked in 1957 with 5,811 babies, ranked #81.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 214,999 girls have been named Anita since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Anita per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.3
    Greatest
  2. 2.1
    Silent
  3. 2.5
    Boomers
  4. 1.5
    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 25,878 babies, 1.26 per 1,000. Silent: 43,038 babies, 2.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 90,052 babies, 2.51 per 1,000. Gen X: 37,357 babies, 1.46 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,936 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,056 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,950 babies, 0.10 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Spanish Anita, diminutive of Ana (“Ann”).

  • A female given name from Spanish.
Origin
Spanish
Say it
/əˈniːtə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Anita, CC BY-SA 4.0.