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Nikisha

Girls' name

Variant of Nakisha

Nikisha has been given to 1,165 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1977, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Nikisha, 2012

1 in 732,000

Nikisha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nikisha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Nakisha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nikisha means

Nikisha is a variant of Nakisha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nikisha is used in African American (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /nə.ˈkɪʃ.ə/ for Nikisha.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nakisha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,165 girls were recorded with the name Nikisha between 1969 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 95 in 1977; its best national rank was #1,263 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Nikisha?

Nikisha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nikisha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikisha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nikishas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikisha was born before 1980 — so the typical Nikisha is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
46.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,165
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 46.0% of all recorded uses (536).

Is Nikisha 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (95)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,263
1977

Spellings of Nikisha

Nikisha is not the most common spelling — Lakisha is, with 22.2% against Nikisha's 2.1%.

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 Nikisha is used

Across 1910–2025, Nikisha was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 320,492 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Maryland1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Nikisha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nikisha around the world

Where Nikisha 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 & Wales
    1996–2017
    #4,763
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1995–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1988–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nikisha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,263
1977
Peak year
1977
95 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
1,165
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nikisha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

NikeshaNikeishaNikaylaNikieshaJerushaNikolaKalishaNikkishaNikiyaAnaishaNikkoleNikkitaNikolinaAlayshaNikolAlaishaAleyshaDanishaNeishaSaishaKaishaKayshaAyishaArisha

Sibling names for Nikisha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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