Vanita

Where Vanita comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit वनिता (vanitā).
— Wiktionary's entry for Vanita
  • Sanskrit
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,540 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1932
    Peak, #1,268
    33 babies named Vanita — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1933
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,970.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.