Girls' name · since 1998
Nikiyah
Since 1998, U.S. Social Security records show 198 babies named Nikiyah, peaking in 2012. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #19,923 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 198
- born since 1998
- 2000s
- peak decade
Nikiyah sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 198 recorded since 1998.
Nikiyah has 198 recorded births among girls since 1998, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1998 to 2023.
- #19,923 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 198 born since 1998
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nikiyah ranks #19,923 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 198 born since 1998, peaking in the 2000s.
- #19,923 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 198
- born since 1998
- 2000s
- peak decade
Nikiyah's 198 recorded births place it above 72.44% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Nikiyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Nikiyah's SSA record in two at 2008 and the more recent half accounts for 44% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 56%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1998, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2012 peak of 19, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Nikiyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1998–2023
- Peak year (2012)
- 19
- Annual births at peak, across 26 years of records
Nikiyah by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (127 births, 64% of the file).
2000s was Nikiyah's strongest decade.
127 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 64% of all-time use.
Nikiyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
127 births
- 2010s
2010s
61 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 127 births (64% of all-time use).
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- Nikiyah's decade-level peak was the 2000s (127 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1998–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Nikiyah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.