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Nitish

Boys' name

Guidance, moral conduct + lord, ruler

Nitish has been given to 83 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 Nitish, 2011

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nitish: meaning, origin, and history

Guidance, moral conduct + lord, ruler

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nitish means

Nitish means “guidance, moral conduct + lord, ruler”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nitish is used in Hindi, Punjabi and Bengali.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 83 boys were recorded with the name Nitish between 2001 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2005; its best national rank was #5,791 in 2005.

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 Nitish?

Nitish had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nitish 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nitish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nitishs were born

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

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
94.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
83
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 94.0% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Nitish 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
36.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,791
2005

Spellings of Nitish

Nitish is not the most common spelling — Nitin is, with 88.5% against Nitish's 11.5%.

  • Nitin88.5%639
  • Nitish11.5%83

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.

Nitish around the world

Where Nitish 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.

  • France
    1993–1993
    #2,573
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nitish 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
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Best rank ever
#5,791
2005
Peak year
2005
14 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
83
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nitish

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

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Sibling names for Nitish

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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