Given name
Nandita
“a delightful daughter”
Nandita is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “a delightful daughter.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “a delightful daughter.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nandita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 245
- 0 boys · 245 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 19 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 998 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.
Nandita’s family of names
Nandita has a related form in Nanditah. Nandita has a related form in Nanditea. Nandita has a related form in Nanditia.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nandita
- Nandita DasIndian actress and film directorborn 1969
- Nandita SwethaIndian actressborn 1989
- Nandita ShahIndian homeopath and authorborn 1959
- Nandita RoyIndian filmmaker and screenwriterborn 1955
- Nandita ChowdhuryIndian politician
- Nandita MahtaniIndian fashion designerborn 1972
- Nandita P. Palshetkarmedical director and IVF & Infertility specialist in Indiaborn 1963
- Nandita BeheraIndian dancerborn 1957
- Nandita K.C.Nepalese actressborn 1983
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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