Lanita
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.
Lanita by the numbers
Lanita was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 114 babies in 1958, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Lanita
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 Lanita. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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