Nikeeta
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nikeeta has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1986, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Nikeeta, 1987
1 in 515,000
Nikeeta 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nikeeta?
Nikeeta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1987
- 1 in 515,000
- 7 of 3,605,072 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 248,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1987
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 356,979 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nikeeta sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 356,979 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikeeta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nikeetas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikeeta was born before 1986 — so the typical Nikeeta is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 62.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 29
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 62.1% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Nikeeta 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (11)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.5% average annual change
Spellings of Nikeeta
Nikeeta is not the most common spelling — Nikita is, with 89.0% against Nikeeta's 0.24%.
Nikeeta around the world
Where Nikeeta 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.
- South Australia2010–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nikeeta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nikeeta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nikeeta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.