Given name
Ríta
Ríta is a feminine given name from Italian. It is used in Icelandic.
Original ItalianRita
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Icelandic usage, Ríta is a diminutive of Margherita.
Ríta’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Ríta is a diminutive of Margherita. In Icelandic usage, Ríta was borrowed from the Italian form Rita. In Greek usage, Ríta is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Ρίτα.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ríta has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
Italianwhere Ríta comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
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.
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