Nikya
Nikya was last recorded in 2011, when 7 babies were given it; 247 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nikya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nikya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,415, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 2002, the peak
Nikya peaked in 2002, when 25 girls were given it, #4,859 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #14,415 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,561 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,705 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,368 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,996 | 6.2 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,709 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,117 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,976 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,859 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,003 | 10.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 19 | #5,872 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,089 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,843 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,421 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,432 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,390 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,052 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,897 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,873 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,427 | 3.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,638 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,694 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,963 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,813 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,146 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,380 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nikya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nikya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nikya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nikya, and how old are they?
An estimated 243 Americans named Nikya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 22 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 248 people named Nikya (241 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 244 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 Nikya?
Nikya is a less common spelling of Nikia: SSA has recorded 247 Nikya and 3,974 Nikia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 58,043 babies since 1880, Nikya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 112 babies recorded by SSA was a Nikya (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 Nikya
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 Nikya and names like it
- Compare Nikya and NikiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNikya peaked in 2002.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Nikya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nikya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.