girls:
3.7k births since 1971
#2833 (50th percentile)
boys:
246 births since 1974
#4340 (5th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1971
#4360 (44th percentile)
The name Nikia is the #4,360 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,973 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 43.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,833 (50.4% percentile) for all time with 3,727 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,340 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 246 births since 1974.
Nikia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1974 for boys). Birth data for Nikia is available in 46 out of the 49 years between 1971 and 2019 (46 years for girls and 16 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nikia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nikia reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 34.2% percentile (ranked #496) with 174 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 174 births per million (ranked 34.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
For boys, Nikia reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 8.8% percentile (ranked #602) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 39 births per million (ranked 8.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nikia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Nikia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.4% confident that Nikia is pronounced as nih-KEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NIH-kee-uh, at 20.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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