Meaning not yet researched.
Nikita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #250 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #250 in 1986; #4,524 in 2025. About 55% of babies named Nikita in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,524 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #250.
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Nikita: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #250 in 1986 · most girls in one year: 1,034 (1986).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Nikita, making it the 4,524th most common girls’ name of the year, down 73 places from #4,451 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 32 girls named Nikita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #250, reached in 1986. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,034. For comparison, it was #2,100 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Nikita, making it the 4,217th most common boys’ name of the year, down 778 places from #3,439 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 34 boys named Nikita in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,429, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 117. For comparison, it was #1,701 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nikita in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 13,668 US babies have been given the name, 79% of them girls and 21% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,546 babies named Nikita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 468 US girls were named Nikita; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nakita (3,018 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nikkita, Niketa and Nekita are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Danish, Dutch, English and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nikkita (798), Niketa (371), Nekita (368), Nikitha (290), Niquita (119), Nikitta (64), Nickita (61), Nykita (40), Neketa (35), Nikeeta (29), Nikeita (12), Niketta (11), 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 Nikita 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 | 31 | #4,524 | 25 | #4,217 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,451 | 34 | #3,439 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,696 | 59 | #2,357 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,179 | 54 | #2,548 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,199 | 77 | #1,951 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,376 | 64 | #2,181 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,539 | 66 | #2,164 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,994 | 79 | #1,896 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,829 | 69 | #2,045 |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,514 | 94 | #1,682 |
| 2015 | 93 | #2,100 | 92 | #1,701 |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,342 | 101 | #1,572 |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,873 | 75 | #1,892 |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,819 | 84 | #1,782 |
| 2011 | 139 | #1,576 | 79 | #1,820 |
| 2010 | 124 | #1,701 | 103 | #1,556 |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,333 | 116 | #1,450 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,989 | 117 | #1,429 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,920 | 88 | #1,717 |
| 2006 | 122 | #1,719 | 95 | #1,558 |
| 2005 | 115 | #1,728 | 74 | #1,784 |
| 2004 | 149 | #1,402 | 88 | #1,527 |
| 2003 | 153 | #1,338 | 79 | #1,606 |
| 2002 | 206 | #1,047 | 76 | #1,604 |
| 2001 | 214 | #1,008 | 59 | #1,886 |
| 2000 | 250 | #884 | 58 | #1,842 |
| 1999 | 320 | #711 | 47 | #2,050 |
| 1998 | 359 | #643 | 52 | #1,892 |
| 1997 | 398 | #583 | 37 | #2,295 |
| 1996 | 161 | #1,128 | 32 | #2,471 |
| 1995 | 190 | #989 | 38 | #2,162 |
| 1994 | 207 | #917 | 36 | #2,246 |
| 1993 | 265 | #780 | 25 | #2,849 |
| 1992 | 343 | #651 | 36 | #2,158 |
| 1991 | 372 | #609 | 31 | #2,334 |
| 1990 | 337 | #661 | 38 | #2,005 |
| 1989 | 417 | #546 | 37 | #1,982 |
| 1988 | 454 | #497 | 20 | #2,826 |
| 1987 | 659 | #361 | 47 | #1,521 |
| 1986 | 1,034 | #250 | 32 | #1,904 |
| 1985 | 162 | #961 | 29 | #2,001 |
| 1984 | 133 | #1,057 | 7 | #5,406 |
| 1983 | 110 | #1,187 | 9 | #4,383 |
| 1982 | 105 | #1,249 | 8 | #4,874 |
| 1981 | 126 | #1,107 | 5 | #6,978 |
| 1980 | 143 | #1,018 | 9 | #4,394 |
| 1979 | 145 | #987 | 9 | #4,303 |
| 1978 | 165 | #886 | 10 | #3,776 |
| 1977 | 181 | #831 | 13 | #3,149 |
| 1976 | 172 | #809 | 6 | #5,414 |
| 1975 | 166 | #821 | 13 | #3,028 |
| 1974 | 170 | #797 | 18 | #2,334 |
| 1973 | 147 | #877 | 14 | #2,681 |
| 1972 | 146 | #876 | 13 | #2,775 |
| 1971 | 95 | #1,202 | 12 | #2,924 |
| 1970 | 60 | #1,593 | 14 | #2,596 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,163 | 11 | #2,808 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,944 | 8 | #3,292 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,475 | 17 | #1,956 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,818 | 12 | #2,420 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,518 | 18 | #1,896 |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,139 | 24 | #1,648 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,403 | 19 | #1,877 |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,802 | 14 | #2,251 |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,861 | 21 | #1,808 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,478 | 25 | #1,652 |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,664 | 19 | #1,903 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,054 | — | — |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,439 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,624 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,291 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,811 | — | — |
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).