Given name
Afrodita
“sea foam, froth”
Afrodita is a feminine given name, possibly from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Semitic. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Afrodita possibly goes back to a word meaning “sea foam, froth.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Afrodita is a variant of Aphrodite. An origin associated with Aphrodite is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Afrodita is a variant of Aphrodite. The history of Aphrodite gives this family its wider story. In mythological stories, Aphrodite is associated with the goddess of love and beauty.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Afrodita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 0 boys · 16 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 11 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Afrodita’s family of names
Afrodita has a related form in Aphrodite. In Spanish usage, Afrodita was borrowed from the Ancient Greek form Ἀφροδίτη.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Afrodita
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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