first name
NIKITA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 15,067 people named Nikita, 38.9% reported their origin as White, 27.1% as Black and 24.8% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 73.9% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Nikita peaked in 1986, when 1,066 babies got the name.
At least 13,668 babies have been given the name since 1949. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Nikita by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,019. The largest share of babies named Nikita, 40.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Nikita is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nikita has been most common in Florida (2.2×), Washington (2.2×), and Georgia (1.6×), and least common in Oklahoma (0.28×).
9,372 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nikita, most common first.
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