Name meaning & stats
Lanita
Lanita. 3,473 US babies since 1940, peak 1958.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 1958
3,473 US babies were named Lanita between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Lanita (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 75% of the family
- Lanita 75%
- Lanetta 22%
- Laneta 3%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1958)