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Nitin

Boys' name

Guidance, moral conduct

Nitin has been given to 639 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 2003, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Nitin, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nitin: meaning, origin, and history

Guidance, moral conduct

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nitin means

Nitin means “guidance, moral conduct”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nitin is used in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu and Kannada.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 639 boys were recorded with the name Nitin between 1972 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2003; its best national rank was #2,646 in 1981.

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 Nitin?

Nitin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nitin 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nitin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nitins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nitin was born before 2000 — so the typical Nitin is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
639
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (231).

Is Nitin 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 2003 (30)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,646
1981

Spellings of Nitin

Nitin is not the most common spelling — Nixon is, with 23.4% against Nitin's 2.0%.

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 Nitin is used

Across 1910–2025, Nitin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,024,067 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Nitin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nitin around the world

Where Nitin 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
    1998–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012
  • Canada
    2003–2003
    #2,175
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nitin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,646
1981
Peak year
2003
30 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
639
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nitin

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

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Sibling names for Nitin

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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