Kritika — #11461 US girls' name
213 babies named Kritika in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 35% of names given to girls today.
40% of everyone ever named Kritika was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Kritika in 2006 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kritika
The Social Security Administration has registered 213 babies named Kritika between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kritika currently holds the #11461 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kritika performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kritika shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kritika in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kritika 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 213 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.
Kritika at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Kritika popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1993
- Peak year (2006)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 32 years of records
Currently ranks #11461 among girls.
213 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2006 with 17 births in a single year.
Kritika by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 86 births that decade — 40% of Kritika's all-time total
Kritika decade highlights
- Peak decade 86 births
- Runner-up 79 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Kritika's strongest decade
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Kritika by state
Where Kritika concentrates geographically — total births since 1993
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 2.3% |
5 of 213 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.3% 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, 1993–2024 (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.