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Niharika

#10,686 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Niharika has been given to 402 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #10,686 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Niharika, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Niharika: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Niharika means

Niharika is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Niharika is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 402 girls were recorded with the name Niharika between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2012; its best national rank was #5,515 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,128 in 2020 to #10,686 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,189 in 2015 to #10,686 in 2025.

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 Niharika?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,686
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Niharika 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 2025 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Niharika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Niharikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Niharika was born before 2011 — so the typical Niharika is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
402
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Choose a decade

2010s — 39.3% of all recorded uses (158).

Is Niharika 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
−640
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,558
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,497
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.0%
Peak was 2012 (25)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,515
2012

Spellings of Niharika

Niharika is not the most common spelling — Sharika is, with 76.4% against Niharika's 23.6%.

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 Niharika is used

Across 1910–2025, Niharika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 779,319 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Niharika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Niharika around the world

Where Niharika 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
    2002–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2005–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Niharika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,686
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,558
Best rank ever
#5,515
2012
Peak year
2012
25 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
402
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Niharika

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

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Sibling names for Niharika

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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