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Niketa

Girls' name

Variant of Nikita

Niketa has been given to 371 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 38 recorded.

Babies named Niketa, 2002

1 in 747,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Niketa: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Nikita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Niketa means

Niketa is a variant of Nikita.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Niketa is used in Marathi and Hindi.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Niketa → Nikita. The family’s meaning is “conqueror”, recorded in English with the source elements Nikḗtas.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nikita.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 371 girls were recorded with the name Niketa between 1969 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1986; its best national rank was #2,600 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Niketa?

Niketa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 747,000
5 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only
1 in 359,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Niketa 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 2002 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 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Niketa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Niketas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Niketa was born before 1984 — so the typical Niketa is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
49.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
371
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Choose a decade

1980s — 49.1% of all recorded uses (182).

Is Niketa 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 (38)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,600
1986

Spellings of Niketa

Niketa is not the most common spelling — Nita is, with 30.7% against Niketa's 0.80%.

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 Niketa is used

Across 1910–2025, Niketa was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 754,215 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 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. Niketa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Niketa around the world

Where Niketa 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
    1996–1999
    #2,444
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

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.

Niketa 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
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Best rank ever
#2,600
1986
Peak year
1986
38 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
371
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Niketa

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

NikiyaNikoletaNikolaNikeetaNikeyaNikolNikolinaNikoNikkieNikaylaNikiahNikayaNikkaNikeaNikylaNikeshaNikithaNikyahNikkolNikhitaNikyaNikalaNikiraNikkia

Sibling names for Niketa

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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