Nikia
Nikia is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 593rd, in 1975.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1975272 births
- Best rank
- #593in 1975
- Since 1971
- 3,973people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,727 girls have been named Nikia in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 272 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 272 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1980s alone account for 35%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 246 boys have also been given it, 6.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1975, its biggest year
Nikia was the 593rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Nikia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nikkiapeak 1979
- Nakeshapeak 1979
- Shawntepeak 1977
- Tanikapeak 1982
- Tarrahpeak 1977
- Rashidapeak 1977
- Kanikapeak 1978
- Mandipeak 1977
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.