Anitta

#9,504 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Anita

Anitta has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 1939. In 2025 it ranked #9,504 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Anitta, 2025

1 in 332,000

Anitta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anitta: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Anita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anitta means

Anitta is a variant of Anita.

Origin, language, and formation

Anitta is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anita.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Anitta is pronounced /ˈɑnitːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 110 girls were recorded with the name Anitta between 1939 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,788 in 1939.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anitta?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 161,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #9,504; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Anitta 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 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anitta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anittas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anitta was born before 1961 — so the typical Anitta is around 64 today.

Median birth year: 1961; About 64 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 18.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 97; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Anitta 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: +5,975; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (10)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,788; 1939

Spellings of Anitta

Anitta is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 59.5% against Anitta's 0.03%.

Anita59.5%215,165
Aniya5.0%18,085
Anika4.6%16,804
Nita3.9%14,268
Anissa3.5%12,498
Annetta2.4%8,814
Danita2.1%7,516
Anisa1.5%5,558

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.

Anitta around the world

Where Anitta 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.

South Australia
1972–1972
#722
in 1972

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anitta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #9,504
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #3,788; 1939
Peak year: 2025; 10 that year
First recorded: 1939
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 110
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Anitta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Anifer Anirah Anisia Aniza Aniaya Aniella Aniqua Anitha Anira Anihya Anikah Aniesa Anilah Suetta Anicka Aniyia Anieya Anivea Anicia Anijha Aniyla Anisah Aniyha Anitria

Sibling names for Anitta

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

For a sister

Leonor Karleigh Rhianna Keren Kendyl Hayleigh Jaiden Shaniya

For a brother

Kale Evans Hamilton Aaden Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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