Nikhita
Nikhita was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 265 Americans have been recorded with it between 1991 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nikhita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nikhita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,723, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 2003, the peak
Nikhita peaked in 2003, when 26 girls were given it, #4,901 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #17,723 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,592 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,233 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,024 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,998 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,353 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,319 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,124 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,471 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,499 | 12.5 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 26 | #4,901 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,220 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,881 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,676 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,287 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,740 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,253 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,388 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,367 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,108 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nikhita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nikhita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nikhita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nikhita, and how old are they?
An estimated 262 Americans named Nikhita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 19 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 424 people named Nikhita (424 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 263 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Nikhita?
Nikhita is a less common spelling of Nikita: SSA has recorded 265 Nikhita and 13,668 Nikita since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 15,315 babies since 1880, Nikhita is the fourth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 56 babies recorded by SSA was a Nikhita (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nikhita
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nikhita and names like it
- Compare Nikhita and NikitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNikhita peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nikhita since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Nikhita.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nikhita alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.