Feminine dossier · first seen 1949

Nikita

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Nikita
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 96.9% from peak

Peak era

1986

Peak rank proxy

1,034

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Millennial

1949Peak 19862024

Peak year

1986

Decline from peak

96.9%

2024

All-time

10,745

Nikita once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1986, when 1,034 girls were named Nikita.

In 2024, only 32 girls were given the name.

Down 96.9% from its peak.

All told, about 10,745 Americans have been named Nikita and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1949.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 96.9% from peak

19861,034 girls named Nikita

202432 girls named Nikita

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