Nakita
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.
Nakita by the numbers
Nakita was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 269 babies in 1986, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Nakita
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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