Nikash
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nikash has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 2003. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Nikash, 2022
1 in 564,000
Nikash over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nikash?
Nikash had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 564,000
- 6 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,139 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nikash sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikash. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nikashs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikash was born before 2011 — so the typical Nikash is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 115
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Nikash rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (14)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.4% average annual change
Spellings of Nikash
Nikash is not the most common spelling — Nash is, with 45.0% against Nikash's 0.23%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Nikash is used
Across 1910–2025, Nikash was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,223,693 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New Jersey1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nikash has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nikash around the world
Where Nikash ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2003–2011#3,830in 2011
- Canada2020–2020#2,945in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Nikash by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nikash
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nikash
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.