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Ankita

Girls' name

Feminine form of Ankit

Ankita has been given to 518 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 2000, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Ankita, 2019

1 in 694,000

Ankita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ankita: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Ankit

Sanskrit

What Ankita means

Ankita is a feminine form of Ankit.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ankita is used in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ankita → Ankit → अंकित. The family’s meaning is “marked, signaled, labeled, identified, distinguished, known, recognised”, recorded in Hindi with the source elements अंकित.

Origin, language, and formation

Ankita is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Ankita comes through Sanskrit अङ्कित and Indonesian desire.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ankit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 518 girls were recorded with the name Ankita between 1986 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2000; its best national rank was #3,666 in 2000.

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 Ankita?

Ankita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ankita sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ankita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ankitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ankita was born before 2003 — so the typical Ankita is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
518
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (248).

Is Ankita 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
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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 2000 (35)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,666
2000

Spellings of Ankita

Ankita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 58.7% against Ankita's 0.14%.

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 Ankita is used

Across 1910–2025, Ankita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 374,510 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ankita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ankita around the world

Where Ankita 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
    1996–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2003
    #2,681
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

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.

Ankita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,666
2000
Peak year
2000
35 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
518
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ankita

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

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Sibling names for Ankita

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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