Anița

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Anița is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Anita. First recorded in Sweden in 1864.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2K(measured from records)
  • ECEcuador1 in 2.3K
  • BRBrazil1 in 6.8K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

164,324 people, 2020

Sources
382 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 193 (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Anita in US United States, BR Brazil, EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Spanish Anita. First recorded in Sweden in 1864.

Sources 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of Islamic Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Anița counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Anița is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—164,3241 in 2K164KAnita382
SE Sweden—50,7191 in 20151K—40
HU Hungary—50,7111 in 19351K—1
PL Poland—45,9721 in 83346K—1
BR Brazil#54630,9231 in 6.8K37KAnita135
FI Finland—20,5181 in 27230K—11
HR Croatia—13,4351 in 31513K—1
LV Latvia—9,0331 in 2089K—18
EC Ecuador#3477,1981 in 2.3K7.2KAnita53

164,324 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Anița is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name81 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, India

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written Anita, אניטה, Анита, Anitae, Aníta

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Anița
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#15,100
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20263#15,101

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Anița mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Anita. First recorded in Sweden in 1864. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of Islamic Names and 5 other sources.
Is Anița a male or female name?
Anița is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Anița have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 164 thousand people named Anița, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anita.
Where is Anița most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anița is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 193 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Anița?
In the United States, the national register counted 164,324 people named Anița in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
How common is Anița compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Anița is the 347th most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anița” — the 347th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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