Given name
Anitra
“a woman graced with God's favor”
Anitra is a variant of Anna. One Latin interpretation is “a woman graced with God's favor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Anitra 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 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Anitra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,379
- 0 boys · 4,379 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 596 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 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 596 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,684 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.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Anitra
- Anitra FordAmerican actress and modelborn 1942
- Anitra SteenSwedish politicianborn 1949
- Nikki BlueAmerican basketball player (born 1984)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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