Anita

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

IPA^(key): /əˈniːtə/

Anita

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

• 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/, [ˈɑnit̪ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑnitɑ
• Syllabification^(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.

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• Anitta

• 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

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
• 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
• 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.

Anita f

1. a female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Anita

• Anitta

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.

Anita c (genitive Anitas)

1. a female given name

• Popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• 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.