English

Proper noun

Anita

1. A female given name.
   • 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.

Usage notes

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.

Translations

Anagrams

• NAATI, Tania, Tiana

Danish

Proper noun

Anita

1. A female given name of Spanish origin.

Faroese

Proper noun

Anita f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

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

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Anita

1. A female given name.
   • 2010 Ilkka Raitasuo - Terhi Siltala, Kellokosken prinsessa, Like Kustannus Oy, ISBN 978-952-01-0509-9, 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.

Declension

Related terms

• Anitta

Anagrams

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

French

Proper noun

Anita

1. A female given name of Spanish origin.

Anagrams

• Tania

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈniːta/

Proper noun

Anita

1. A female given name of Spanish origin.

Usage notes

• Popular in the beginning of the 20th century.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒnitɒ]
• Hyphenation: Ani‧ta

Proper noun

Anita

1. A female given name.

Declension

Latvian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Anita f

1. A female given name.

Related terms

• Anna

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
• Population Register of Latvia: Anita was the only given name of 10 139 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Norwegian

Etymology

From Spanish Anita. First recorded in Norway in 1880.

Proper noun

Anita

1. A female given name.

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
• 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.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish Anita.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ˈni.tɐ/

Proper noun

Anita f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Anita

Spanish

Etymology

From Ana +‎ -ita.

Proper noun

Anita f

1. A diminutive of the female given name Ana.
2. A female given name used in Latin America.

Swedish

Etymology

From Spanish Anita. First recorded in Sweden in 1864.

Proper noun

Anita

1. A female given name.

Usage notes

• Popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 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.

Portuguese

Noun

anita f (plural anitas)

1. (mineralogy) annite (phyllosilicate mineral related to biotite)