Nikhila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Krsna (N) (Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Nikhila is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 86K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 842K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.2Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Krsna (N)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nikhila counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 86K | 2 | Nikhila | 100 |
| US United States | 395 | 1 in 842K | 392 | Nikhila | 122 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Nikhila | 1 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 355K | — | Nikhila | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Nikhila | 41 |
| SG Singapore | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 695K | — | Nikhila | 5 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Nikhila | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Nikhila is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
complete; all; whole; entire
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nikhila mean, and where does it come from?
- Krsna (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Is Nikhila a male or female name?
- Nikhila is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Nikhila?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Nikhila in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nikhila. After it come United States, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nikhila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 395 people named Nikhila in 2020, about 1 in 842 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nikhilaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nikhila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.