Nikea
Nikea was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 328 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nikea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nikea?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,043, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1984, the peak
Nikea peaked in 1984, when 24 girls were given it, #3,489 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #18,043 | 2.7 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,289 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,635 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,731 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,016 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,912 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,450 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,752 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,272 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,694 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #14,524 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,524 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,992 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,172 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,372 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,934 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,489 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,354 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,981 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,193 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,675 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,866 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,873 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,196 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,372 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,771 | 8.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nikea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nikea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nikea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nikea, and how old are they?
An estimated 317 Americans named Nikea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 33 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 299 people named Nikea (286 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 58,124 babies since 1880, Nikea is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 112 babies recorded by SSA was a Nikea (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Nikea
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 Nikea and names like it
- Compare Nikea and NikkiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNikea peaked in 1984.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nikea since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Nikea.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nikea alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.