Mikita

Girls' name

Form of Niketas

Mikita has been given to 124 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1986, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Mikita, 1993

1 in 754,000

Mikita over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mikita: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Niketas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mikita means

Mikita is a form of Niketas.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mikita is used in Belarusian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mʲi.ˈkʲi.ta/ for Mikita.

Origin, language, and formation

Mikita is used in English.

Mikita comes through Belarusian Мікі́та.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Niketas and Мікі́та.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 124 girls were recorded with the name Mikita between 1971 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1986; its best national rank was #6,023 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.

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How common is Mikita?

Mikita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993: 1 in 754,000; 5 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only: 1 in 362,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 522,458 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Mikita 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 1993 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 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mikita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mikitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mikita was born before 1985 — so the typical Mikita is around 40 today.

Median birth year: 1985; About 40 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 124; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Mikita 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 1986 (12)
Years since peak: 39; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 39.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,023; 1986

Spellings of Mikita

Mikita is not the most common spelling — Nikita is, with 17.9% against Mikita's 0.21%.

Nikita17.9%10,778
Mika11.2%6,752
Marita8.4%5,088
Mikala6.7%4,008
Nikia6.2%3,728
Makiya5.1%3,046
Nakita5.0%2,990
Markita4.1%2,495

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.

Mikita 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: #6,023; 1986
Peak year: 1986; 12 that year
First recorded: 1971
Last recorded: 1993
All-time count: 124
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Mikita

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

Mikasa Mikaiah Mikiya Mikiah Mikaia Aelita Mikhia Mikele Mikena Mikeyla Mikyah Armita Talita Mikhala Mikeia Mikaely Mikeria Mikayah Mikael Mikeya Mikera Mikisha Mikyra Mikaili

Sibling names for Mikita

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

For a sister

Domonique Keshia Shantell Linsey Candis Corey Kristan Sade

For a brother

Whitney Shea Derik Derrell Darell Elizabeth Kelsey Garrick

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