Nikkia
Nikkia was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 1,453 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Nikkia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 34 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nikkia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nikkia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,486, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
88 babies in 1977, the peak
Nikkia peaked in 1977, when 88 babies were given it (81 girls, #1,397 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,486 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,920 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,383 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,281 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,710 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,501 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,079 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,159 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,791 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,051 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 23 | #4,826 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,603 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,206 | 21.3 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,601 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,741 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,018 | 21.8 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,025 | 21.6 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,468 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,471 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,053 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,226 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,730 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,424 | 24.7 |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,947 | 33.2 |
| 1985 | 51 | #2,093 | 29.6 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,917 | 32.7 |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,013 | 30.5 |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,766 | 37.2 |
| 1981 | 81 | #1,498 | 48.6 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,596 | 44.0 |
| 1979 | 85 | #1,438 | 53.0 |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,447 | 52.2 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,397 | 52.8 |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,596 | 43.0 |
| 1975 | 64 | #1,569 | 43.9 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,378 | 22.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,905 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,789 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,128 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nikkia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nikkia has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 39 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nikkia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nikkia, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,453 Americans ever recorded as Nikkia. The median Nikkia alive today is 42 years old; half are between 34 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,190 people named Nikkia (1,162 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,415 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 485 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 709 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 203 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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).
Where are babies named Nikkia born?
The states with the most babies named Nikkia are New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 143 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 42 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 38 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 33 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| District of Columbia | 17 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Florida | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Nikkia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nikkia is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nikkia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 68,180 babies since 1880, Nikkia is the seventh most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 107 babies recorded by SSA was a Nikkia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Nikkia
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 Nikkia and names like it
- Compare Nikkia and NikkiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNikkia peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nikkia since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Nikkia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nikkia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.