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I have a grandaunt named Necita and I really want to know what her name means. If it helps, she's Filipino, but her father was Chinese while her mother was a princess of a Philippine Tribe; her sisters ha(d/s) names of Spanish origin (Eleuteria, Clarita), while her brothers ha(d/s) names that were English in usage (Anthony, Chris) . Since it ends in -ita , I suspect that it's a diminutive of a name, but "Neca" or doesn't appear on BtN, but the name "Necia" is on BtN, so Necita could therefore be a diminutive of that; I don't think that's it though, since Necia is listed as English in usage, and because it's pronounced as "KNEE-SHA" while my grandaunt pronounces Necita as /nɛ.'si:.ta/.
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I finally know it! :D
I was browsing a website that listed saints' feast days. I decided to see if some of my family and relatives were named after a saint on their birthday, so I decided to see if my grandaunt, born January 7, was named after a particular saint. When I saw the saints whose feast days are January 7, I saw one St. Nicetas of Remesiana. Knowing that other names with the same elements such as Anecita and Mercedita come from Aniceta and Merceditas respectively, I knew that Necita was a feminine variant of Nicetas!
I was browsing a website that listed saints' feast days. I decided to see if some of my family and relatives were named after a saint on their birthday, so I decided to see if my grandaunt, born January 7, was named after a particular saint. When I saw the saints whose feast days are January 7, I saw one St. Nicetas of Remesiana. Knowing that other names with the same elements such as Anecita and Mercedita come from Aniceta and Merceditas respectively, I knew that Necita was a feminine variant of Nicetas!
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