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Nitya

Nitya is a girl's name that peaked in 2005, when it was the 2,865th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,459th. About 1,100 Nityas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Nitya boys named Nitya

By the numbers

Total US births
1,146
Estimated living today
1,100
Median age today
15
Peak year
2005
Best rank
2,865th
Rank in 2025
3,459th
First recorded
1988
Girls / boys
1,136 / 10

How old the living Nityas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,146 babies given the name since 1988, about 1,100 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 710 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Nityas

People named Nitya with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Nitya is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nitya is most concentrated in New Jersey (9.0×), California (4.8×), Texas (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2005

The most popular girls’ names the year Nitya peaked:

All the names of 2005

Nitya elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Nitya 115 1,743rd
France girls Nitya 50 7,187th
England and Wales boys Nitya 13 3,908th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Nitya against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.