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Nitika

Girls' name

Guidance, moral conduct

Nitika has been given to 149 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 2005, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Nitika, 2017

1 in 715,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nitika: meaning, origin, and history

Guidance, moral conduct

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nitika means

Nitika means “guidance, moral conduct”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nitika is used in Hindi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 149 girls were recorded with the name Nitika between 1973 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2005; its best national rank was #6,197 in 1977.

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 Nitika?

Nitika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nitika 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nitika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nitikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nitika was born before 2002 — so the typical Nitika is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
149
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Nitika 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 2005 (14)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,197
1977

Spellings of Nitika

Nitika is not the most common spelling — Nita is, with 33.5% against Nitika's 0.35%.

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 Nitika is used

Across 1910–2025, Nitika was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 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. Nitika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nitika around the world

Where Nitika 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
    2006–2006
    #5,061
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Nitika 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
#6,197
1977
Peak year
2005
14 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
149
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nitika

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

NithilaNitaraNavikaArnikaVivikaNithikaNithyaNitziaYuvikaAnaikaOnnikaEshikaNaikaSuleikaEmikaAadvikaPranikaRuhikaSamikaReikaVamikaNitsaAanikaAdrika

Sibling names for Nitika

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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