Nikkia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Nikkia

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,441 babies named Nikkia between 1971 and 2014, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nikkia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 85 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nikkia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 546 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nikkia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 143 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Nikkia in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nikkia 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 1,441 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.