Benita

Where Benita comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Benita.
— Wiktionary's entry for Benita
  • Spanish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,279 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1948
    Benita Ferrero-Waldner born
    Austrian diplomat and politician
  3. 1961
    Benita Fitzgerald-Brown born
    American hurdler
  4. 1961
    Peak, #445
    480 babies named Benita — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #695.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Benita Ferrero-Waldner · Austrian diplomat and politician, born 1948
  • Benita Fitzgerald-Brown · American hurdler, born 1961
  • Benita Hume · British actress, 1906–1967
  • Benita Johnson · Australian distance runner, born 1979
  • Benita Asas · Spanish teacher, journalist, and suffragist, 1873–1968

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.