Nikayla
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 64 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,218since 1988
Nikayla over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Nikayla has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 |
| 2011 | #4,072 | 36 |
| 2010 | #3,516 | 45 |
| 2009 | #3,677 | 43 |
| 2008 | #3,084 | 55 |
| 2007 | #4,050 | 38 |
| 2006 | #2,916 | 59 |
| 2005 | #2,607 | 65 |
| 2004 | #2,679 | 61 |
| 2003 | #2,556 | 63 |
| 2002 | #2,780 | 54 |
| 2001 | #2,540 | 60 |
| 2000 | #2,403 | 64 |
| 1999 | #2,222 | 67 |
| 1998 | #2,221 | 64 |
| 1997 | #2,511 | 51 |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 38 |
| 1995 | #2,932 | 40 |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 |
| 1993 | #4,826 | 20 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
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First appearance
1988
The first year at least five girls were named Nikayla! It came in at #7,111, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2020, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Nikayla is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Nikayla in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 3,820 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #14,942)
- 146 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #14,942)
- 9,484 spots since 2015 (#5,458 → #14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 1998 at #2,221 (64 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 14 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 26,475
- Highest: 1 in 26,475 girls born in 1999 were named Nikayla (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,221 in 1998, was only 1 in 27,609 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 46.1% of all girls named Nikayla (562) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 17 | #7,111 (1988) | #8,396 |
| 1990s | 361 | #2,221 (1998) | #3,772 |
| 2000s | 562 | #2,403 (2000) | #2,929 |
| 2010s | 241 | #3,516 (2010) | #5,940 |
| 2020s | 37 | #10,292 (2021) | #13,657 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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