Krithika — girls' name
236 babies named Krithika in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
44% of everyone ever named Krithika was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Krithika in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Krithika
The Social Security Administration has registered 236 babies named Krithika between 1999 and 2023, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Krithika currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Krithika performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 104 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Krithika shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Krithika in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Krithika 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 236 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.
Krithika at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Krithika popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1999
- Peak year (2015)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
236 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 14 births in a single year.
Krithika by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 104 births that decade — 44% of Krithika's all-time total
Krithika decade highlights
- Peak decade 104 births
- Runner-up 78 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Krithika's strongest decade
104 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Krithika by state
Where Krithika concentrates geographically — total births since 1999
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New Jersey | | 5 | 2.1% |
5 of 236 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New Jersey 2.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New Jersey accounts for 2.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.