Venita

Where Venita comes from

Venita hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1901
    First appearance
    #1,007 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Peak, #648
    243 babies named Venita — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,036.
  4. 1966
    Venita Coelho born
    Indian writer from Goa
  5. 1987
    Venita Akpofure born
    british-Nigerian actress and video vixen
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Venita Akpofure · british-Nigerian actress and video vixen, born 1987
  • Venita Coelho · Indian writer from Goa, born 1966

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.