Gender-neutral · #4139 in 2025

Nikita

Nikita: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#4139
Born 2025
25
Peak year
2009

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Nikita per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 2009. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Nikita has been falling: its share of boys born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 24% of its 2009 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 43% of children named Nikita were recorded as girls and 57% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.