Anita’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Anita
Anita's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Anita's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Anita: meaning and origin
Anita has more than one root. Behind the Name lists it as a Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian and Slovene diminutive of Ana, the form of Anna used in various languages. It also has a separate entry for the Indian name Anita, a feminine form of Anit. Wikipedia adds a third possibility: that Anita is a short form of the ancient Persian name Anahita. It says the name and its variants are common worldwide, especially in Europe, Iran, South Asia and North America.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name lists Nita as the English diminutive and Ani as a Spanish variant, with Anica and Anka in Croatian and Slovene. Since Anita began as a pet form of Ana, Ana and Anna are natural long forms. Nita is the easy, everyday choice.
Famous people named Anita
Soul singer Anita Baker rose to fame with her 1986 album Rapture and its Grammy-winning single “Sweet Love”, and she has won eight Grammy Awards. Anita Loos became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood in 1912, when D. W. Griffith hired her at Triangle Film Corporation, and later wrote the 1925 comic novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. And Indian novelist Anita Desai has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; her daughter Kiran Desai went on to win it.
Is Anita a popular name?
Anita had a long, steady American run. US Social Security data has it in the girls’ top 200 from the 1910s to the 1970s. Its biggest decade was the 1950s, when more than 47,000 girls were named Anita, at 91st, and its best rank was 89th in the 1960s. It fell to 154th in the 1970s and then left the top 200.
Anita trivia
An Anita gave cinema one of its best-known scenes. Wikipedia says Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, a former Miss Sweden, played Sylvia in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960), and her scene in Rome’s Trevi Fountain with Marcello Mastroianni has been called “one of cinema’s most iconic scenes”.
Gift ideas that suit an Anita
- For a soul music fan. Playlists and lyrics, in honor of Anita Baker.
- For a screenwriter. Scene ideas, for a name shared with Anita Loos.
- For a trip to Rome. Travel notes, for a name tied to the Trevi Fountain.
- For a 70th birthday. Anita peaked in the 1950s, so milestone birthdays are here.
How Anita can use it
Any Anita, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Anita can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Anita’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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