Girls' name · since 1965
Nitsa
Nitsa has 38 recorded births since 1965 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #38,265 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,261 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 38
- born since 1965
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Nitsa is the #10261 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 38 recorded since 1965.
Nitsa has 38 recorded births among girls since 1965, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #10261 as of the latest data, more common than 41% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1965 to 2025.
- #38,265 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,261 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 38 born since 1965
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nitsa ranks #38,265 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,261 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 38 born since 1965, peaking in the 2020s.
- #38,265 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,261 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 38
- born since 1965
- 2020s
- peak decade
Nitsa's 38 recorded births place it above 46.97% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Nitsa compares
38 13th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Nitsa's all-time total is 90% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Nitsa | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 38 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Nitsa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Nitsa splits its recorded history at 2023: 58% of all births land in the more recent half, 42% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1967 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Nitsa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1965–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 61 years of records
Nitsa by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (27 births, 71% of the file).
2020s was Nitsa's strongest decade.
27 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 71% of all-time use.
Nitsa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
11 births
- 2020s
2020s
27 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 27 births (71% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Nitsa: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1965–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Nitsa draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.