Entry № 677 · Spanish origin

Anita Anita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Grace (Anita Hill; Anita Baker; Anita Desai)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "grace (anita hill; anita baker; anita desai)".

Anita is the Spanish-Italian diminutive of Ana — from the Hebrew Hannah (grace).

Grace (Anita Hill; Anita Baker; Anita Desai) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Anita
Transliteration
Anita
Pronunciation
/ əˈniː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anita stands.

Anita does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Anitas before her.

Real people
Anita Hill
American lawyer and professor.
born 1956
Anita Baker
American Grammy singer.
born 1958
Anita Desai
Indian novelist.
born 1937
In fiction
Anita
West Side Story.
1957

Names connected to Anita.

The number behind Anita.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anita reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.