Anita

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

• IPA^(key): /əˈniːtə/

Anita

1. A female given name from Spanish.
   • 1906, McClure's Magazine, volume 27, S.S. McClure Limited, page 425:

     My Aunt said she had some sense of the fitness of things and that she could not call a great, fat, quiet, blonde child a little, quick, dark name like Anita, and it wasn't what my mother had named me anyway.

Adopted as a formal given name in many European countries in the 19th century due to the fame of Anita (born Ana Maria), the Brazilian born wife of the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi.

• Santa Anita

• NAATI, T'ai-an, Tai'an, Tania, Tiaan, Tiana, tania

Borrowed from Spanish Anita.

• IPA^(key): /aˈni.ta/

Anita f (definite Anita)

1. a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Anita (usually Roman catholic)
2. definite singular nominative of Anitë ((the) Anita)

• Anitë

Anita

1. a female given name of Spanish origin

Anita f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Anita: Anituson
• daughter of Anita: Anitudóttir

From Spanish Anita, often through other languages, at the end of the 19th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnitɑ/, [ˈɑ̝nit̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑnitɑ
• Syllabification^(key): A‧ni‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): A‧ni‧ta

Anita

1. a female given name
   • 2010, Ilkka Raitasuo - Terhi Siltala, Kellokosken prinsessa, Like Kustannus Oy, →ISBN, page 211:

     Eräänä Annan päivänä 1960-luvulla ylilääkäri Alivirta oli pistäytynyt osastolla toivottamassa kaikille juhlijoille hyvää nimipäivää. Tuolloin Prinsessa oli oikaissut Isä Paavalia ja todennut, että hän oli oikeastaan Anita. Hän piti Annaa hieman rahvaanomaisena ja vanhahtavana etunimenä.

     On one Anna's day [in December] in the 1960s, head physician Alivirta had stopped by the unit to wish everyone celebrating a happy name day. Then the princess had corrected father Paavali and stated that the name was actually Anita. To her Anna was a bit folksy and outdated as a name.

• Anitta

• Anita is the 120^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 6,273 female individuals (and as a middle name to 15,150 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Taina, aitan, antia, naita, taain, taian, tinaa

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.ta/

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Anita f

1. a female given name from Spanish

• Tania

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈniːta/

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Anita

1. a female given name from Spanish, popular in the early 20th century

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒnitɒ]

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• Hyphenation: Ani‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

Anita

1. a female given name

Borrowed from Spanish Anita.

• IPA^(key): /ˈanita/

Anita

1. a female given name from Spanish

First recorded as a given name of Latvians at the end of the 19th century. From Spanish Anita.

Anita f

1. a female given name

• Anna

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Anita was the only given name of 10 139 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

From Spanish Anita. First recorded in Norway in 1880.

Anita

1. a female given name

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 14 599 females with the given name Anita living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.

Borrowed from Spanish Anita. By surface analysis, Ana +‎ -ita

• Hyphenation: A‧ni‧ta

Anita f (plural Anitas)

1. a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Anita
2. a diminutive of the female given name Ana

• Anitta

• IPA^(key): /ǎnita/

Ànita f (Cyrillic spelling А̀нита)

1. a female given name

• “Anita”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

From Ana +‎ -ita.

• IPA^(key): /aˈnita/ [aˈni.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: A‧ni‧ta

Anita f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Ana, equivalent to English Annie
2. (Latin America) a female given name of Latin American usage
3. diminutive of Ana

From Spanish Anita. First recorded in Sweden in 1864.

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Anita c (genitive Anitas)

1. a female given name

• Popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [3] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 60 446 females with the given name living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

• Anna
• Ania
• Ann

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /anˈɨta/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /anˈiːta/

Anita f

1. a female given name from Spanish Anita

Heini Gruffudd (2010) Enwau Cymraeg i Blant / Welsh Names for Children‎^[4], Y Lolfa, →ISBN, page 17