Nikita — #4382 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Nikita

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,745 babies named Nikita between 1949 and 2024, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nikita currently holds the #4382 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 1,034 babies received it in a single year. Nikita is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,865 additional births since 1959.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nikita performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 3,343 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Nikita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 920 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Nikita in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nikita 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 10,745 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.