Nykea
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nykea has been given to 44 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 1980, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Nykea, 1996
1 in 405,000
Nykea 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nykea?
Nykea had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 405,000
- 9 of 3,646,048 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 195,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 280,806 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nykea sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 280,806 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nykea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nykeas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nykea was born before 1981 — so the typical Nykea is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 44
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (22).
Is Nykea 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 1980 (9)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.1% average annual change
Spellings of Nykea
Nykea is not the most common spelling — Nyla is, with 36.5% against Nykea's 0.06%.
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 Nykea is used
Across 1910–2025, Nykea was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,752,106 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 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. Nykea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nykea around the world
Where Nykea 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 Australia2002–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nykea by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nykea
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nykea
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.