Concetta

Where Concetta comes from

Concetta 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. 1887
    First appearance
    #1,147 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1900
    Concetta Scaravaglione born
    American sculptor
  3. 1914
    Peak, #299
    306 babies named Concetta — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1938
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #564.
  5. 1945
    Concetta Tomei born
    American actress
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Concetta Tomei · American actress, born 1945
  • Concetta Scaravaglione · American sculptor, 1900–1975
  • Concetta Damante · Italian politician, born 1972
  • Concetta Barra · Italian singer and actor, 1922–1993
  • Concetta Fierravanti-Wells · Australian politician, born 1960

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.