Girl name#211 of girl names
Anita
Pronounced AH0 N IY1 T AH0 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 1957
- 145 years in use
How popular is Anita?
Anita is a girls' name, and has been in the record since the data starts in 1880. It has been given to 217,461 children — the 211th most common girls' name on record.
Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 1957, when 5,862 children were given it.
Characteristics
- Alliterative
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- AH0 N IY1 T AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 010
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Anita
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Anita
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Anita?
- Anita ranks 211th among girls' names in US records, with 217,461 births since 1880. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,645.
- Is Anita a unisex name?
- No. Anita is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Anita most popular?
- 1957, when 5,862 children were given the name. It has been in use for 145 years and is still recorded as of 2024.