Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ankita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 518
- 0 boys · 518 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −100%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 35 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,591 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ankita’s family of names
Ankita may belong to the same name family as ANKKITA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ankita
- Ankita LokhandeIndian actress (born 1984)born 1985
- Ankita RainaIndian tennis playerborn 1993
- Ankita SharmaIndian television actressborn 1987
- Ankita BhakatIndian archerborn 1998
- Ankita DasIndian Table Tennis playerborn 1993
- Ankita BhambriIndian tennis playerborn 1986
- Ankita MakwanaSwiss actress and modelborn 1991
- Ankita ShoreyIndian modelborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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