Given name & surname
Aneta
“a woman graced with God's favor”
Aneta is a variant of Anna. One Latin interpretation is “a woman graced with God's favor.”
Original FrenchAnnette
Meaning & origin
What it means
Aneta is a variant of Anna. One Latin interpretation is “a woman graced with God's favor.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1902. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aneta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 845
- 0 boys · 845 girls
- Most popular year
- 1948
- 18 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 6 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 18 in 1948. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,776 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aneta’s family of names
In Polish usage, Aneta has a diminutive in ANETKA. Aneta has a related form in Anna. In Polish usage, Aneta has a conventional equivalent in the French form Annette.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Aneta has relatives in 16 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
Frenchwhere Aneta comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aneta
- Aneta KręglickaPolish beauty pageant contestantborn 1965
- Aneta KoniecznaPolish canoeistborn 1978
- Aneta MihalyRomanian rowerborn 1957
- Aneta SzczepańskaPolish judokaborn 1974
- Aneta HladíkováCzech racing cyclistborn 1984
- Aneta CorsautAmerican actress (1933-1995)
- Aneta HavlíčkováCzech volleyball playerborn 1987
- Aneta LangerováCzech recording artist; singerborn 1986
- Aneta UdriștioiuRomanian female handballerborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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