Nikia
Nikia was last recorded in 2019, when 6 babies were given it; 3,974 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,820 Americans named Nikia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 34 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nikia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nikia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,086, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
335 babies in 1975, the peak
Nikia peaked in 1975, when 335 babies were given it (272 girls, #593 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | #15,086 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,388 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,983 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,007 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,073 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,216 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,099 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,262 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,301 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,016 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 22 | #6,072 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,388 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,793 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,283 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,570 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,032 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,855 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,491 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,076 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 73 | #1,974 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,940 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,945 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,615 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 83 | #1,768 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,863 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 94 | #1,611 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,772 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 84 | #1,645 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 95 | #1,449 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 114 | #1,245 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 132 | #1,115 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 120 | #1,181 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 129 | #1,085 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 136 | #1,034 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 127 | #1,113 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 192 | #824 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 178 | #864 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 192 | #821 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 224 | #709 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 202 | #756 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 189 | #764 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 272 | #593 | 0.19 |
| 1974 | 188 | #751 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,479 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,382 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,203 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nikia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,974 Americans recorded as Nikia, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nikia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nikia, and how old are they?
3,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,974 Americans ever recorded as Nikia. The median Nikia alive today is 43 years old; half are between 34 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 3,158 people named Nikia (2,953 women and girls, 205 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,861 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,680 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 555 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 28 |
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 Nikia born?
The states with the most babies named Nikia are New York, Illinois and Maryland, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 313 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 258 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Maryland | 197 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 196 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 177 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 171 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 162 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 124 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 99 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 97 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Nikia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nikia is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1971 it was given 3.0 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 Nikia 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 68,180 babies since 1880, Nikia is the fifth most given (5.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 107 babies recorded by SSA was a Nikia (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 Nikia
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 Nikia and names like it
- Compare Nikia and NikkiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNikia peaked in 1975.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nikia since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Nikia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nikia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.