Ankita

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: Hindi

Meaning

Ankita is a Sanskrit word meaning "Marked". As with any adjective in the language, it can take on a nominal form. The word is often used as a female name in Asian countries, atypically because of its extended meaning as "one with auspicious signs/engraving".

From Wikipedia

Ankita first appears in the data in 1986 and has been recorded in 33 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2000 with 35 babies (rank #3,671 that year). It was not in the 2024 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Ankita

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Ankita yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

518
Total babies (all years)
33
Years in the data
35
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19867#8,576
19885#11,910
19897#9,743
199012#6,896
199112#6,997
199214#6,329
199310#8,093
199413#6,705
199511#7,554
199625#4,190
199719#5,235
199815#6,395
199920#5,241
200035#3,671
200127#4,454
200225#4,781
200328#4,555
200424#5,222
200526#4,967
200632#4,474
200725#5,540
200813#9,019
200913#8,935
201014#8,308
201113#8,669
201217#7,168
20137#13,286
201412#9,024
201510#10,219
20168#11,884
20178#11,729
20186#13,944
20195#15,745