Nakita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nakita has been given to 3,018 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 269 recorded.
Babies named Nakita, 2024
1 in 669,000
Nakita over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nakita?
Nakita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 324,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nakita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nakita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nakitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nakita was born before 1987 — so the typical Nakita is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 39.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 13.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,990
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (1,172).
Is Nakita 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (269)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.7% average annual change
Spellings of Nakita
Nakita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 46.8% against Nakita's 0.65%.
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 Nakita is used
Across 1910–2025, Nakita was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 111,845 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1District of Columbia1 in 33,333
- 2Alabama1 in 50,000
- 3Georgia1 in 50,000
- 4Hawaii1 in 50,000
- 5Tennessee1 in 50,000
- 6Virginia1 in 50,000
- 7Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 8California1 in 100,000
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. Nakita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nakita around the world
Where Nakita 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 & Wales1996–2016#5,785in 2016
- Scotland1991–1991#634in 1991
- Northern Ireland2001–2005#377in 2005
- Ireland1986–2002#620in 2002
- Canada1991–2019#2,373in 2019
- South Australia1986–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Nakita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Nakita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Nakita
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nakita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Nakita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.