Nika — #3128 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nika

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,444 babies named Nika between 1961 and 2024, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nika currently holds the #3128 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 77 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nika performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 674 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Nika shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 597 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Nika in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nika 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 2,444 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.