Ankita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Ankita

The Social Security Administration has registered 518 babies named Ankita between 1986 and 2019, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ankita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 35 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ankita performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 248 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ankita shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 76 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ankita in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ankita in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 518 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.