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Ankit

Boys' name

Marked, signaled, labeled, identified, distinguished, known, recognised, through अंकित

Ankit has been given to 799 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Ankit, 2020

1 in 668,000

Ankit over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ankit: meaning, origin, and history

Marked, signaled, labeled, identified, distinguished, known, recognised, through अंकित

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ankit means

Ankit belongs to the name family reached through Ankit → अंकित. Its meaning is “marked, signaled, labeled, identified, distinguished, known, recognised”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ankit is used in English.

Ankit comes through Hindi अंकित.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include अंकित.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 799 boys were recorded with the name Ankit between 1978 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1998; its best national rank was #2,056 in 1986.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ankit?

Ankit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ankit sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ankit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ankits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ankit was born before 1997 — so the typical Ankit is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
799
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (284).

Is Ankit rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (41)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,056
1986

Spellings of Ankit

Ankit is not the most common spelling — Anakin is, with 24.3% against Ankit's 3.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ankit is used

Across 1910–2025, Ankit was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 218,293 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ankit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ankit around the world

Where Ankit ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1992–2009
    #2,692
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    2009–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ankit by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,056
1986
Peak year
1998
41 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
799
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ankit

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AnkurAnkushAnkithAnkerKitNikitAnkomaAnkoor

Sibling names for Ankit

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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