Nicha — girls' name
111 babies named Nicha in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
34% of everyone ever named Nicha was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Nicha in 2021 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nicha
The Social Security Administration has registered 111 babies named Nicha between 1977 and 2023, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nicha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nicha performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 38 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nicha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nicha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nicha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 111 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Nicha at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nicha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1977
- Peak year (2021)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 47 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
111 total births across 47 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2021 with 9 births in a single year.
Nicha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 38 births that decade — 34% of Nicha's all-time total
Nicha decade highlights
- Peak decade 38 births
- Runner-up 29 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Nicha's strongest decade
38 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Nicha by state
Where Nicha concentrates geographically — total births since 1977
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 23 | 20.7% |
23 of 111 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 20.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 20.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1977–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.