Nikkita — girls' name
798 babies named Nikkita in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1986. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Nikkita was born in this single decade.
64 babies were named Nikkita in 1986 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nikkita
The Social Security Administration has registered 798 babies named Nikkita between 1972 and 2020, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nikkita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 64 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nikkita performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 276 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nikkita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Nikkita in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nikkita 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 798 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.
Nikkita at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nikkita popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1972
- Peak year (1986)
- 64
- Annual births at peak — across 49 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
798 total births across 49 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1986 with 64 births in a single year.
Nikkita by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 276 births that decade — 35% of Nikkita's all-time total
Nikkita decade highlights
- Peak decade 276 births
- Runner-up 272 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Nikkita's strongest decade
276 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Nikkita by state
Where Nikkita concentrates geographically — total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Florida | | 18 | 2.3% |
| #2 | California | | 6 | 0.8% |
| #3 | Ohio | | 6 | 0.8% |
| #4 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #5 | Michigan | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #6 | New York | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #7 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #8 | Texas | | 5 | 0.6% |
18 of 798 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Florida 2.3% of nationwide
- California 0.8% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.8% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.6% of nationwide
- Michigan 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Florida accounts for 2.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1972–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.