Nitya
Nitya was given to 44 girls in 2025, #3,504 among girls’ names; 1,146 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Nitya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nitya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nitya?
#3,504 among girls’ names, 2025
Nitya rose from #4,280 in 2015 to #3,504 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.0 to 27.4 per million.
62 babies in 2009, the peak
Nitya peaked in 2009, when 62 babies were given it (57 girls, #3,034 among girls’ names). The 44 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,504 | 27.4 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,109 | 32.1 |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,022 | 23.1 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,549 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,053 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,128 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,317 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,383 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,975 | 22.0 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,063 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,280 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,523 | 25.2 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,685 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,097 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,052 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,160 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,034 | 31.0 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,363 | 26.4 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,159 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,007 | 30.0 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,891 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,794 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,009 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,146 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,523 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,147 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,979 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,887 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,958 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,986 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,398 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,947 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,175 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,967 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,532 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,248 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nitya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nitya has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 36 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nitya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nitya, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,146 Americans ever recorded as Nitya. The median Nitya alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,329 people named Nitya (1,252 women and girls, 77 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 930 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 44 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 599 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 493 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nitya born?
The states with the most babies named Nitya are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #3,015 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,198 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,307 | 2.7× |
Where Nitya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nitya is most over-represented in California: since 1988 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nitya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 15,490 babies since 1880, Nitya is the second most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 51 babies (86%), the most given that year.
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 Nitya
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 Nitya and names like it
- Compare Nitya and NitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNitya peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nitya since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Nitya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nitya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.