Nikita
Nikita is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 32 births. Its best rank was 250th, in 1986.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 320.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19861,034 births
- Best rank
- #250in 1986
- Since 1949
- 13,610people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,745 girls have been named Nikita in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 1,034 births.
The name has all but left use: 32 births in 2024, against 1,034 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 1980s alone account for 31%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Nikita is used for both sexes: 21% of its bearers are boys (2,865), most of them born around 2008.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Nikita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | |
| 1950s | 83 | |
| 1960s | 318 | |
| 1970s | 1,447 | |
| 1980s | 3,343 | |
| 1990s | 2,952 | |
| 2000s | 1,506 | |
| 2010s | 885 | |
| 2020s | 206 |
In 1986, its biggest year
Nikita was the 250th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1986 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1986.
Names that rose and fell with Nikita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elizabetpeak 1989
- Jenapeak 1986
- Deondrapeak 1985
- Talisapeak 1989
- Ashlipeak 1989
- Melyssapeak 1989
- Alyciapeak 1990
- Janaypeak 1987
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.