Meaning not yet researched.
Nikayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,235 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,235 in 1998; #16,596 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nikayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,596 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #2,235.
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Nikayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,235 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 67 (1999).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Nikayla, making it the 16,596th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,730 places from #11,866 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 8 girls named Nikayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,235, reached in 1998. The most girls given the name in a single year was 67, in 1999. For comparison, it was #5,617 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nikayla in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 10 babies. In all, 1,218 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 562 babies named Nikayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 95 US girls were named Nikayla; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nikola (4,102 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nickayla, Nekayla and Nykayla 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nickayla (205), Nekayla (91), Nykayla (88), Nikaylah (5).
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 Nikayla 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 | 5 | #16,596 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,866 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,938 | — | — |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,071 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,895 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,850 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,034 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,327 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,656 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,886 | — | — |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,617 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,938 | — | — |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,988 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,075 | — | — |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,134 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,558 | — | — |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,721 | — | — |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,111 | — | — |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,622 | — | — |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,703 | — | — |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 2000 | 64 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,247 | — | — |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,545 | — | — |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,128 | — | — |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,942 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,215 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,125 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,468 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,511 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,510 | — | — |
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).