Meaning not yet researched.
Nika: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,378 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,378 in 2017; #3,200 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nika in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,200 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #2,378.
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Nika: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,378 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 77 (2017).
In 2025, 50 US girls were named Nika, making it the 3,200th most common girls’ name of the year, down 92 places from #3,108 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 52 girls named Nika in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,378, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #2,639 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nika in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 6 babies. In all, 2,502 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 674 babies named Nika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 628 US girls were named Nika; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,145 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Nneka, Nyoka and Nikka are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nneka (1,178), Nyoka (946), Nikka (410), Neeka (246), Nica (233), Nikaya (165), Nikai (161), Neka (155), Nioka (113), Neika (51), Nieka (26), Niyoka (25), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nika in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,200 | — | — |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,108 | — | — |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,814 | — | — |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,849 | — | — |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,631 | — | — |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,772 | — | — |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,832 | — | — |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 2015 | 68 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,589 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,079 | — | — |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,881 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,958 | — | — |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,838 | — | — |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,995 | — | — |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,551 | — | — |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,170 | 5 | #12,201 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,573 | — | — |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,507 | — | — |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,174 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,802 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,253 | — | — |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,439 | — | — |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,106 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,084 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,489 | — | — |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,043 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,663 | — | — |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,592 | — | — |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,188 | — | — |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,866 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,872 | — | — |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,233 | — | — |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,532 | — | — |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,913 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,494 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,528 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,395 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,481 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,356 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).