Nika Girl
How popular is Nika?
#3,167 girl name in 2025
50 baby girls were named Nika in the US in 2025, making it the 3167th most popular girl name.
Nika popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #3,167 for girls (▼ 86 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 50 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-26% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,619 in 2015, #2,748 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2017 (77 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,357 in 2017 |
| First recorded | 1961 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Nika counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Nika family of names ranked #2,184 for girls in 2025 (#2,307 the year before), with 58 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Nika | 50 | 86% |
| Nica | 8 | 14% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Nika is most popular
Babies named Nika per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (77 girls)
- Illinois: 0.1 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Washington: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Nika by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 48 | #3,773 |
| 1970s | 213 | #2,601 |
| 1980s | 295 | #2,414 |
| 1990s | 441 | #2,397 |
| 2000s | 477 | #2,530 |
| 2010s | 674 | #2,357 |
| 2020s | 349 | #2,608 |
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Questions
- Is Nika a boy or girl name?
- Nika is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Nika were girls.
- How popular is the name Nika?
- 50 baby girls were named Nika in the US in 2025, making it the 3167th most popular girl name.
- When was Nika most popular?
- Nika peaked in 2017, when 77 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,357 in 2017.
- How many people are named Nika?
- 2,502 babies have been named Nika in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,462 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 20.
- Where is Nika most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Nika was most common in California, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.