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Nishita

Girls' name

Transliteration of न

Nishita has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 2006, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Nishita, 2015

1 in 617,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nishita: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of न

Sanskrit

What Nishita means

Nishita is a transliteration of न.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Hindi निशिता (niśitā), from Sanskrit निशिता (niśitā).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Nishita (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Nishita is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Nishita comes through Hindi निशिता and Sanskrit निशित.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include न.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 135 girls were recorded with the name Nishita between 1987 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2006; its best national rank was #9,737 in 2006.

How common is Nishita?

Nishita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nishita 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nishita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nishitas were born

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

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
71.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
135
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 71.9% of all recorded uses (97).

Is Nishita 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 2006 (12)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,737
2006

Spellings of Nishita

Nishita is not the most common spelling — Nikita is, with 59.2% against Nishita's 0.74%.

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.

Nishita around the world

Where Nishita 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
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    2010–2010
    #6,838
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Nishita 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
#9,737
2006
Peak year
2006
12 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
135
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nishita

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

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Sibling names for Nishita

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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