as a First Name
Apparently a literary coinage by Henrik Ibsen, who used it as the name of an Eastern princess in Peer Gynt (1867). No Arabic original is known. It is now occasionally used as a given name, not only in Norway but also elsewhere in Scandinavia, Germany, and the English-speaking world.
| 2,818th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,077
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Louisiana
- has the most people named Anitra per capita
- 1976
- marked the height of its popularity
100%
0%
0.13%
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55+
93%
30-54
30-54
6%
13-29
13-29
0.38%
0-12
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