girls:
1k births since 1988
#4676 (18th percentile)
boys:
10 births since 2009
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1988
#6689 (14th percentile)
The name Nitya is the #6,689 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,050 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 13.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,676 (18.2% percentile) for all time with 1,040 births since 1988. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2009.
Nitya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for girls and 2009 for boys). Birth data for Nitya is available in 34 out of the 36 years between 1988 and 2023 (34 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nitya has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nitya reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #887) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 28 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nitya ranks #915 for girls (3.4% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 75.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Nitya reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #917) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nitya".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Nitya is pronounced as NIH-tyuh, which has 2 syllables.
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