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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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