Meaning not yet researched.
Nitya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,895 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,895 in 2005; #3,505 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nitya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,505 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #2,895.
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Nitya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,895 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 57 (2009).
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Nitya, making it the 3,505th most common girls’ name of the year, down 396 places from #3,109 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 52 girls named Nitya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,895, reached in 2005. The most girls given the name in a single year was 57, in 2009. For comparison, it was #4,281 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nitya in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 1,146 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 440 babies named Nitya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 370 US girls were named Nitya; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Nithya, Niti and Nytia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nithya (822), Niti (76), Nytia (28).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nitya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,505 | — | — |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,109 | — | — |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,024 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,552 | — | — |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,057 | — | — |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,131 | — | — |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,318 | 5 | #13,563 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,384 | — | — |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,976 | — | — |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,063 | — | — |
| 2015 | 34 | #4,281 | — | — |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,525 | — | — |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,687 | — | — |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,053 | — | — |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,161 | — | — |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,035 | 5 | #13,914 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,008 | — | — |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,013 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,527 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,153 | — | — |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,985 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,893 | — | — |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,962 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,992 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,403 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,953 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,182 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,974 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,539 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,255 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).