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Zita

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Italian name of uncertain origin and meaning [1]

Theories include:

1) Latin (medieval Tuscan dialect) zita, zitta = 'girl' [2] [3] [4]

2) Greek zētein = 'to seek' [2]

3) Short form of Felicitas [5]

4) Creative spelling of Sita [4]

Related Names

Zita ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Zíta ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic
Zitta ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish

See also Sita

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Zita
Genitive: Zitas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Zita
Genitive: Zitan
Partitive: Zitaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Zita
Genitive: Zitas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Zita
Genitive: Zitas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 79 people were named Zita (percentage of first or only given name: 77 %) [7]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
133 198 133 198 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
208
n.a.
 208
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 40
n.a.
 40 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
6 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
3 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
69
n.a.
 69
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 Zita.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  6. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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