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Female Name
Usage
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Name of uncertain origin and meaning
Theories include:
1) Female form of Ranit [1]
2) Variant form of Ronit
3) Fantasy name inspired by Anita [2] [3]
4) Variant form of Renita [3]
See also -ita
Related Names
See also Nita
Grammar
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Ranita
|
Genitive: |
Ranitan
|
Partitive: |
Ranitaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Ranita
|
Genitive: |
Ranitas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Ranita
|
Genitive: |
Ranitas
|
Further Information
Pronunciation
- Swedish: [ra‘ni:ta] (key)
Earliest Documented Usage
- Norway: ca 1785 (Sunnmøre) - after that first in 1959 again [2] [3]
Predominant Regional Usage
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[4] |
|
5 |
7 |
5 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[5] |
|
2 |
n.a. |
2 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[6] |
|
n.a. |
3 |
n.a. |
3 |
0 |
0 |
Norway[7] |
|
29 |
n.a. |
29 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[8] |
|
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: 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 Ranita.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/