Nikita

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Nikita boys named Nikita

Girls and boys called Nikita

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Nikita crossed from girls to boys in 2016, and has stayed there for 9 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 61% boys, and in 2025 it was 45%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 67 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

13,668

Estimated living today

13,000

Median age today

32

Peak year

1986

Best rank

250th

Rank in 2025

4,460th

First recorded

1949

Girls / boys

10,778 / 2,890

How old the living Nikitas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 13,668 babies given the name since 1949, about 13,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 2,700 of them are children and 150 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Ancient Greek

From the Russian Ники́та, a male given name, from Ancient Greek Νικήτας (“conqueror”) also a male given name (and name of various saints). The Greek word derives from νῑ́κη (“victory”). Made known in the West by Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Union leader in 1953–1964. It was reanalyzed as a form of Nicholas and taken up as a girls' name first in French and then in English.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Nikitas

• Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971)leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
• Nikita Mikhalkov (born 1945)Russian film director, writer, producer and actor
• Nikita Mazepin (born 1999)Russian racing driver
• Nikita Simonyan (1926–2025)Soviet and Russian footballer and coach
• Nikita Vitiugov (born 1987)Russian chess player
• Nikita Parris (born 1994)English association football player
• Nikita Rukavytsya (born 1987)Ukrainian-Australian soccer player
• Nikita Kucherov (born 1993)Russian ice hockey player

People named Nikita with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Nikita is most common

• CA1,334
• NY1,013
• FL727
• IL616
• TX599
• GA436
• NJ395
• PA376
• OH348
• WA334

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nikita is most concentrated in Florida (2.2×), Washington (2.2×), Georgia (1.6×), Mississippi (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1986

The most popular girls’ names the year Nikita peaked:

• Jessica
• Ashley
• Amanda
• Jennifer
• Sarah
• Stephanie

All the names of 1986

Nikita elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Nikita: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Nikita is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.03% of children were given it – 26 of them.

Nikita: rank by region

In 2022, Nikita was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Nikita was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Nikita was given 2 times or more in 6 regions of Poland.

In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Nikita appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (331st).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Nikita by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Nikita among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Nikita lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,713 men called Nikita were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 33 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 19 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Nikki
• Nikolas
• Niko
• Nikolai
• Niki
• Nikole
• Nikhil
• Nikko
• Nikola
• Nikia
• Nikolaus
• Nika

Nikita against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Nikita vs Nikki
• Nikita vs Nikolas
• Nikita vs Niko
• Nikita vs Nikolai
• Nikita vs Niki
• Nikita vs Nikole

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