Nykia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Nykia

The Social Security Administration has registered 993 babies named Nykia between 1974 and 2019, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nykia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 73 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nykia performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 369 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nykia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Nykia in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nykia 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 993 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.