Janita

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Female Name

Usage

Finnish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

1) Low German female form of Jan (see Jana)

2) Slavic variant form of Jana

3) English variant form of Juanita

See also -ita

Related Names

Janihtá	♀
Janita	♀
Janitta	♀
Jannitha	♀

See also Nita

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Janituson

Female

Janitudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Janita
Genitive:	Janitas

- Faroese
Nominative:	Janita
Accusative:	Janitu
Dative:	Janitu
Genitive:	Janitu

- Finnish
Nominative:	Janita
Genitive:	Janitan
Partitive:	Janitaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Janita
Genitive:	Janitas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Janita
Genitive:	Janitas

Name Day

Finland

15 November

Further Information

• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1839 (Kville, Bohuslän)
• Finland: ca 1930

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1940-
• Norway: 1985-1995

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Møre og Romsdal
  • Troms
• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Östsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 76 people were named Janita (percentage of first or only given name: 47 %)

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&
Finland		n.a.	2628	n.a.	2628	0	0
Sweden		96	166	96	166	0	0
Denmark		13	n.a.	13	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		254	n.a.	254	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		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 Janita.