Nika
Nika was given to 50 girls in 2025, #3,200 among girls’ names; 2,502 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,460 Americans named Nika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nika?
#3,200 among girls’ names, 2025
Nika fell from #2,639 in 2015 to #3,200 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 38.1 to 31.1 per million.
77 babies in 2017, the peak
Nika peaked in 2017, when 77 girls were given it, #2,378 among girls’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,200 | 31.1 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,108 | 32.1 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,814 | 38.0 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,849 | 36.6 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,631 | 40.2 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,772 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,394 | 44.7 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,831 | 35.3 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,378 | 44.6 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,638 | 37.8 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 68 | #2,639 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,462 | 41.4 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,589 | 39.3 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,078 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,936 | 33.5 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,608 | 39.4 |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,543 | 40.3 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,881 | 32.8 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,958 | 31.7 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,837 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,991 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,547 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,167 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,569 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,502 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,493 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,171 | 23.1 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,799 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,858 | 24.7 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,698 | 26.2 |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,667 | 26.2 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,422 | 29.7 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,802 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,248 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,433 | 27.7 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,420 | 26.9 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,552 | 24.4 |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,426 | 25.3 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,696 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,104 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,083 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,488 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,042 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,662 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,591 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,188 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,865 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,872 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,758 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,641 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,025 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,398 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,426 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,233 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,460 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,532 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,912 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,493 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,527 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,394 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,480 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,355 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nika has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nika, and how old are they?
2,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,502 Americans ever recorded as Nika. The median Nika alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,839 people named Nika (2,615 women and girls, 224 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,134 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 579 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 773 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 834 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nika born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #2,052 | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,569 | 0.3× |
Where Nika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nika is most over-represented in California: since 1961 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nika with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 64,530 babies since 1880, Nika is the fifth most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 107 babies (47%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nika
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nika and names like it
- Compare Nika and NikkiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNika peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nika since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Nika.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nika alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.