Vita

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Latin vīta = 'life' ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

2) Female form of Vitus ^{[4] [5] [6]}

3) Short form of Victoria ^{[7] [5] [6]}

4) Variant spelling of Wita ^[8]

5) Short form of Vitalia ^[8]

Related Names

Vita	♀
Vitha	♀

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1912 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[9]		1941	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[10]		83	128	0	3
Norway[11]		50	55	0	0
Finland[12]		n.a.	29	n.a	2
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Vita.

Sources: ^{[10] [9] [11] [12]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Evan Bogan: Navnebogen (2005)
4. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
5. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
6. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
7. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
8. ↑ Own theory. No references found, yet.
9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
10. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
11. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
12. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi