Niketa
Niketa was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 371 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niketa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Niketa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,377, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1986, the peak
Niketa peaked in 1986, when 38 girls were given it, #2,600 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #17,377 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,636 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,252 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,073 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,366 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,341 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,326 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,107 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,213 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,818 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 12 | #6,550 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,825 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,600 | 22.2 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,587 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,438 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,637 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,789 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,884 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,256 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,015 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,441 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,011 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,913 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,724 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,087 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,759 | 8.2 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,862 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,295 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Niketa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Niketa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Niketa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niketa, and how old are they?
An estimated 357 Americans named Niketa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 38 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 533 people named Niketa (515 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 361 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% 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.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 15,315 babies since 1880, Niketa is the third most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 56 babies recorded by SSA was a Niketa (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 Niketa
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 Niketa and names like it
- Compare Niketa and NikitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNiketa peaked in 1986.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Niketa since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Niketa.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Niketa alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.