Given name
Henriqueta
Henriqueta is a feminine given name from Middle French, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Portuguese.
Original FrenchHenriette
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Henriqueta comes from Middle French, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Middle French -ette, from Old French -ete, from Latin -ittus, from Proto-Italic *-tos, from Proto-Indo-European *-tós.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Henriqueta’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Henriqueta has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Enriqueta. In Portuguese usage, Henriqueta has a conventional equivalent in the French form Henriette.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Henriqueta
- Henriqueta Godinho Gomesformer political leader in Guinea-Bissau1942–2018
- Henriqueta LisboaBrazilian writer, poet (1901–1985)
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