Given name & surname
Karita
“a woman of generous love”
Karita is a form of Charity. One Latin interpretation is “a woman of generous love.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Karita is a form of Charity. One Latin interpretation is “a woman of generous love.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
How it developed
In Scandinavian use, Karita is used as a form of Charity.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1958. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Karita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 197
- 0 boys · 197 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 17 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 5 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 281 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.
Karita’s family of names
Karita shares a linguistic root with Charity. In Greek usage, Karita as a surname is a transliteration of Καριτά. Karita is a form of Charity.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Karita
- Karita MattilaFinnish operatic sopranoborn 1960
- Karita BekkemellemNorwegian business leader and politicianborn 1965
- Karita TykkäFinnish modelborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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