Recorded 1949–2025 · United States
Nikita was most popular in 1986, when 1,066 American babies were given the name — ranking #468 that year. In 2025 it ranked #5,203, with 56 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 13,668 people named Nikita.
Nikita first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1949, which makes it about 76 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 72 of the 77 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 13,668 American births named Nikita between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 13,294 are estimated to be alive today.
56 American babies were named Nikita in 2025, ranking #5,203 that year.
Nikita is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 88 births a year, against 192 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -54% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Nikita is a unisex name — 78.9% of the 13,668 Americans given it were girls and 21.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 2025 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 43% girls and 57% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 13,294 Americans named Nikita are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 33 years old, and half are between 22 and 40.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org