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Nithya

#5,191 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Nitya

Nithya has been given to 822 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #5,191 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Nithya, 2025

1 in 133,000

Nithya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nithya: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Nitya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nithya means

Nithya is a form of Nitya.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nithya → Nitya. The family’s meaning is “always, eternal”, recorded in the naming reference for Nitya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nitya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 822 girls were recorded with the name Nithya between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2013; its best national rank was #3,251 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,129 in 2020 to #5,191 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,519 in 2015 to #5,191 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 Nithya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,191
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nithya 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nithya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nithyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nithya was born before 2012 — so the typical Nithya is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
822
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Choose a decade

2010s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (349).

Is Nithya 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
+550
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,938
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,672
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2013 (50)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,251
2013

Spellings of Nithya

Nithya is not the most common spelling — Nita is, with 47.4% against Nithya's 2.7%.

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 Nithya is used

Across 1910–2025, Nithya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 276,962 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —
  6. 6Virginia1 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. Nithya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nithya around the world

Where Nithya 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
    2005–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • France
    2007–2011
    #7,034
    in 2011
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022

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

Nithya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,191
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,938
Best rank ever
#3,251
2013
Peak year
2013
50 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
822
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Nithya

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

NitaraNityaKathyaSophyaAdhyaNithilaNitzaAadhyaAradhyaCinthyaTehyaNitashaNitikaAaradhyaRadhyaNitziaShyaRhyaSandhyaNitsaAshyaTishyaMahyaNita

Sibling names for Nithya

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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