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Anitra

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Anitra has been given to 4,379 babies in the U.S. since 1923. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 596 recorded.

Babies named Anitra, 2013

1 in 608,000

Anitra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anitra: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anitra means

Anitra is a given name.

The naming story behind Anitra

Wikidata records Anitra as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q606907, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,379 girls were recorded with the name Anitra between 1923 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 596 in 1976; its best national rank was #355 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Anitra?

Anitra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anitra sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anitra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anitras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anitra was born before 1976 — so the typical Anitra is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
56.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,260
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 56.8% of all recorded uses (2,489).

Is Anitra rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (596)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#355
1976

Spellings of Anitra

Anitra is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 55.9% against Anitra's 1.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Anitra is used

Across 1910–2025, Anitra was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 53,363 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 11,111
  2. 2Alabama1 in 25,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 25,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 33,333
  8. 8California1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Anitra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anitra around the world

Where Anitra ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1955–1955
    #502
    in 1955

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Anitra

People whose public names include Anitra, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Anitra by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#355
1976
Peak year
1976
596 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
4,379
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Names with a curve like Anitra

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Sibling names for Anitra

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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