Anetta
Just over 6,000 Polish women carry it, and it's given so seldom now that meeting one is memorable. A Latin name at root, tied to the sense of "grace".
Anetta Pronunciation
Anetta is pronounced ah-NET-tah (/aˈnɛtta/).
What Anetta means
Where Anetta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anetta grows from Latin roots, and its ending tells you something. The suffix -etta is a diminutive, the small and affectionate form that Latinate languages hand to an older name. So Anetta reads as a tender version of an established name, and over time its sense settled on "grace."
In Poland the shorter spelling Aneta is far more common, while Anetta keeps the doubled letter and a faintly Italian look. The two are the same name. Grace is the meaning that follows it, the quality the word points to rather than a claim about ancient roots.
Read down a school register and Aneta will likely appear before Anetta does. The longer form still has its bearers, each writing that second t on an official page at the urząd. What the name offers a reader is plain enough. It came through Latin, it wears a diminutive ending, and it means grace.
How many people are named Anetta
1 in 3746 women in Poland is named Anetta. 6,018 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #452 among female names.
Anetta's popularity over time
0 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Anetta as a middle name
Anetta is a first name for 6,018 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,119, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 242nd, between Marcjanna (1,126) and Kunegunda (1,117).
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240
1,129Samanta
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241
1,126Marcjanna
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2421,119Anetta
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243
1,117Kunegunda
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244
1,098Nadzieja