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Nithin

#13,340 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Nitin

Nithin has been given to 373 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #13,340 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Nithin, 2025

1 in 663,000

Nithin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nithin: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Nitin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nithin means

Nithin is a variant of Nitin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nithin is used in Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nithin → Nitin. The family’s meaning is “guidance, moral conduct”, recorded in the naming reference for Nitin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nitin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 373 boys were recorded with the name Nithin between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2004; its best national rank was #3,602 in 2004.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,877 in 2015 to #13,340 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.

How common is Nithin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,340
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nithin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nithin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nithins were born

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

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
53.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
373
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Choose a decade

2000s — 53.6% of all recorded uses (200).

Is Nithin 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
−5,463
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.2%
Peak was 2004 (26)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,602
2004

Spellings of Nithin

Nithin is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 96.1% against Nithin's 0.06%.

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 Nithin is used

Across 1910–2025, Nithin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,452,725 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Nithin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nithin around the world

Where Nithin 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
    2001–2016
    #3,478
    in 2016
  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,805
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nithin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,340
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,602
2004
Peak year
2004
26 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
373
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Nithin

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

ShahinJachinKenshinNitaiNitinSachinNitishNathinNiteshRohinEthinMahinDelphinBodhinZahinAfshinKrithinNithilanChinOshinVahinEathinJonathinShin

Sibling names for Nithin

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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