Danita
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Danita by the numbers
Danita was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 313 babies in 1961, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Danita
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Danita. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- DanicaGod is my judge; feminine form of Daniel310 in the US (2017)
- Daniagod is my judge; a feminine form of daniel46 in England and Wales (2025)
- Danikagod is my judge; a feminine form of Daniel163 in the US (2017)
- Daniyagod is my judge; a feminine form of Daniel51 in the US (2017)
- Danitzagod is my judge; diminutive form of Danielle22 in the US (2017)
- Danilagod is my judge; a form of Daniel13 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Danita
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