Namita

Girls' name

Bowed, bent down

Namita has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 11 recorded.

Babies named Namita, 2008

1 in 786,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Namita: meaning, origin, and history

Bowed, bent down

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Namita means

Namita means “bowed, bent down”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Namita is used in Bengali, Assamese, Odia, Hindi and Marathi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 135 girls were recorded with the name Namita between 1974 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1998; its best national rank was #8,242 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Namita?

Namita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008: 1 in 786,000; 5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only: 1 in 378,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 544,916 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Namita 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Namita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Namitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Namita was born before 1998 — so the typical Namita is around 27 today.

Median birth year: 1998; About 27 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 92.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 135; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Namita 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 (11)
Years since peak: 27; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,242; 1986

Spellings of Namita

Namita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 32.1% against Namita's 0.02%.

Anita32.1%215,165
Camila18.5%123,854
Nadia7.0%46,556
Amira3.8%25,609
Tamika3.4%22,760
Kamila3.0%20,098
Amina2.9%19,270
Nita2.1%14,268

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.

Namita around the world

Where Namita 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
2006–2006
#5,061
in 2006
South Australia
2005–2005
#775
in 2005

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

Namita 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: #8,242; 1986
Peak year: 1998; 11 that year
First recorded: 1974
Last recorded: 2008
All-time count: 135
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Namita

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

Namira Namiah Namine Namiko Namari Namirah Namani Namaari Namia Aelita Namya Namora Talita Armita Namiya Namrata Namiyah Anvita Namara Lekita Kelita Alnita Ghita Delita

Sibling names for Namita

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

Cydney Kalie Reilly Reanna Serina Isela Shae Taya

For a brother

Demarco Marquez Ronaldo Tariq Jaren Marshal Samual Jovan

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