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Nikitha

Girls' name

Variant of Nikita

Nikitha has been given to 290 babies in the U.S. since 1995. 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 2009, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Nikitha, 2020

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nikitha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Nikita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nikitha means

Nikitha is a variant of Nikita.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nikitha is used in Telugu and Tamil.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nikitha → 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, 290 girls were recorded with the name Nikitha between 1995 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2009; its best national rank was #6,039 in 2009.

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 Nikitha?

Nikitha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nikitha 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikitha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nikithas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikitha was born before 2006 — so the typical Nikitha is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
56.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
290
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Choose a decade

2000s — 56.2% of all recorded uses (163).

Is Nikitha 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (23)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,039
2009

Spellings of Nikitha

Nikitha is not the most common spelling — Nikita is, with 47.3% against Nikitha's 1.3%.

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 Nikitha is used

Across 1910–2025, Nikitha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 941,928 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

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

Nikitha around the world

Where Nikitha 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
    2005–2013
    #3,536
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1992–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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.

Nikitha 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
#6,039
2009
Peak year
2009
23 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
290
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nikitha

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

NikolinaNikhitaAmruthaNikaylaNikiyaNikolaNishthaNikiyahNikeshaAnvithaNikeriaNikolettaAasthaRenathaNikelleNikeishaSamhithaNikcoleIshithaNiketaNikkitaNikkoleNikitiaSrihitha

Sibling names for Nikitha

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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