Krithika
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KRITH-ih-kuh
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Krithika is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “the Pleiades”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Krithika mean?
Sanskrit: South Indian spelling of Krittika, the Pleiades
“the Pleiades”
From Sanskrit Krittika, the Pleiades star cluster, the third of the 27 lunar mansions in Hindu astronomy.
Is Krithika a girl's or a boy's name?
Krithika is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Krithika in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Krithika, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2015, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Krithika in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Krithika in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
Names like Krithika
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Prisha Anvika Akshara Viha Avani Krisha Kavya Divisha Saanvi Varnika Navya Dhriti
Names related to Krithika
More Sanskrit names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Krithika: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/krithika, updated 20 October 2026.