Nikiah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Nikiah

The Social Security Administration has registered 169 babies named Nikiah between 1978 and 2014, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nikiah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 16 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nikiah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 76 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nikiah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nikiah 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 169 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.