Nikeya
Nikeya was last recorded in 2009, when 7 babies were given it; 508 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nikeya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nikeya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,795, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1982, the peak
Nikeya peaked in 1982, when 34 girls were given it, #2,746 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7 | #14,795 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,575 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,240 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,411 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,078 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,885 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,622 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,490 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,400 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,841 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 8 | #10,510 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,017 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,540 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,452 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,368 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,930 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,851 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,746 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,615 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,507 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,805 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,141 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,392 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,276 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,509 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,746 | 20.1 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,401 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,781 | 19.9 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,410 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,351 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,572 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,815 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,515 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,088 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nikeya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nikeya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nikeya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nikeya, and how old are they?
An estimated 492 Americans named Nikeya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 32 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 398 people named Nikeya (395 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 496 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 10,014 babies since 1880, Nikeya is the fifth most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 55 babies recorded by SSA was a Nikeya (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 Nikeya
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 Nikeya and names like it
- Compare Nikeya and NikiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNikeya peaked in 1982.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nikeya since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Nikeya.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nikeya alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.