About the name Lanita
Lanita belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Lanita first appears in Social Security records in 1913. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #974 in 1958, and in 2024 7 babies received the name — 3,713 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.