Rita

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form (Italian) of names ending with -rita [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

2) Variant form of Riitta [1] [2] [5]

Related Names

Riita
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Greenlandic
Rit
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish
Rita
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Ríta
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic
Rîta
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Greenlandic
Rith
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish
Ritha
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
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Danish Norwegian Swedish

See also Riitta, Ritja, Ritta

Combinations

For combinations see RIT

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Rituson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Ritudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Rita
Genitive: Ritas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Rita
Accusative: Ritu
Dative: Ritu
Genitive: Ritu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Rita
Genitive: Ritan
Partitive: Ritaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Rita
Accusative: Ritu
Dative: Ritu
Genitive: Ritu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Rita
Genitive: Ritas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Rita
Genitive: Ritas

Name Days

Finland Finland

17 February

Norway Norway

27 July

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

17 February

Sweden Sweden

6 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Rita Irene Ottervik (born 11 September 1966), Norwegian politician

Trivia

  • Rita was a heavy storm in Norway in December 2007.

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[13]
5899
n.a.
5899
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[14]
3076 4520 3076 4517 0 3
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
2770
n.a.
2770 0 0
Greenland Greenland[16]
55 111
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[17]
35 54
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
6604
n.a.
6604
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Rita (f) Sources: [14][13][18][15]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Rita (f) Sources: [19]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Rita (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  4. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  13. 13.0 13.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  15. 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  18. 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  19. details see Name Statistic tables