Nikiya
Nikiya was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,593 among girls’ names; 592 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nikiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nikiya?
#16,593 among girls’ names, 2025
Nikiya rose from #18,389 in 2015 to #16,593 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.1 per million.
40 babies in 1981, the peak
Nikiya peaked in 1981, when 40 girls were given it, #2,435 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,593 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,762 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,389 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,995 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,035 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,093 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,643 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,964 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,918 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,262 | 11.4 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 20 | #6,537 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,059 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,500 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,878 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,617 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,124 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,401 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,122 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,519 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,173 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,445 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,914 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,980 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,165 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,527 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,796 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,318 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,299 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,505 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,174 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,255 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,261 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,663 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,228 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,790 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,435 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,797 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,548 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,352 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,844 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,062 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,713 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,747 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nikiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nikiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nikiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nikiya, and how old are they?
An estimated 578 Americans named Nikiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 21 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 475 people named Nikiya (459 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 571 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Nikiya?
Nikiya is a less common spelling of Nikia: SSA has recorded 592 Nikiya and 3,974 Nikia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,709 babies since 1880, Nikiya is the sixth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 68 babies (7.4%), the third most given that year.
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 Nikiya
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 Nikiya and names like it
- Compare Nikiya and NikiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNikiya peaked in 1981.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nikiya since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Nikiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nikiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.