Nikia — unisex name

What the Data Says About Nikia

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,727 babies named Nikia between 1971 and 2019, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nikia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 272 babies received it in a single year. Nikia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 246 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nikia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,306 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nikia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 306 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Nikia in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nikia 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 3,727 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.