Nikisha
Nikisha was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 1,165 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Nikisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 41 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nikisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nikisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,800, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
95 babies in 1977, the peak
Nikisha peaked in 1977, when 95 girls were given it, #1,263 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,800 | 2.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,540 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,290 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,512 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,640 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,541 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,624 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,622 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,334 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,598 | 11.7 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 23 | #4,333 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,021 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 34 | #3,013 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,226 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,499 | 23.3 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,780 | 19.8 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,553 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,012 | 30.5 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,983 | 31.3 |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,611 | 43.8 |
| 1980 | 92 | #1,369 | 55.4 |
| 1979 | 90 | #1,371 | 56.1 |
| 1978 | 91 | #1,328 | 59.4 |
| 1977 | 95 | #1,263 | 62.0 |
| 1976 | 75 | #1,416 | 51.2 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,619 | 41.8 |
| 1974 | 63 | #1,546 | 42.9 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,987 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,246 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,733 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,694 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,296 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nikisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nikisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nikisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nikisha, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,165 Americans ever recorded as Nikisha. The median Nikisha alive today is 46 years old; half are between 41 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,046 people named Nikisha (1,043 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,129 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 26 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,207 babies since 1880, Nikisha is the most given (53% of them).
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 Nikisha
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 Nikisha and names like it
- Compare Nikisha and NikeshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNikisha peaked in 1977.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nikisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Nikisha.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nikisha alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.