girls:
512 births since 2000
#5204 (9th percentile)
overall:
512 births since 2000
#7227 (7th percentile)
The name Nishka is the #7,227 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 512 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 6.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,204 (8.9% percentile) for all time with 512 births since 2000.
Nishka first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (first recorded for girls in 2000). Birth data for Nishka is available in 23 out of the 24 years between 2000 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Nishka reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #903) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 23 births per million (ranked 4.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nishka ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 24.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nishka".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Nishka is pronounced as NIHSH-kuh, which has 2 syllables.
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