Nandita

Girls' name

Joy

Nandita has been given to 245 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 2004, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Nandita, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nandita: meaning, origin, and history

Joy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nandita means

Nandita means “joy”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nandita is used in Hindi and Marathi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 245 girls were recorded with the name Nandita between 1976 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2004; its best national rank was #6,420 in 2004.

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 Nandita?

Nandita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 677,000; 5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Nandita 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nandita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nanditas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nandita was born before 2005 — so the typical Nandita is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 56.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 245; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 56.3% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Nandita 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 2004 (19)
Years since peak: 21; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,420; 2004

Spellings of Nandita

Nandita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 73.1% against Nandita's 0.08%.

Anita73.1%215,165
Nadia15.8%46,556
Danita2.6%7,516
Lanita1.3%3,721
Candida1.2%3,580
Nakita1.0%2,990
Wanita0.86%2,534
Vanita0.70%2,056

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 Nandita is used

Across 1910–2025, Nandita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Nandita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nandita around the world

Where Nandita 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
2001–2014
#5,691
in 2014
Canada
2011–2011
#3,211
in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nandita 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: #6,420; 2004
Peak year: 2004; 19 that year
First recorded: 1976
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 245
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Nandita

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

Nanita Nanami Nanayaa Nandini Nanetta Nanea Samhita Anahita Nandana Nancyjo Sulamita Talita Nandika Rosalita Nancylee Marnita Nancyann Cruzita Darnita Naquita Chinita Nikhita Taquita Anvita

Sibling names for Nandita

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

Iyanna Charlize Jasmyn Kya Elyssa Shreya Anastacia Jaci

For a brother

Kadin Alexandro Lazaro Reagan Braulio Alexandre Johnpaul Mikel

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