How popular is “Nikita” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nikita” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nikita” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Nikita” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Nikita” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Nikita” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Nikita” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nikita” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1949	5	0.000001435	5		100%
1953	5	0.000001297	5		100%
1956	5	0.000001213	5		100%
1957	13	0.000003094	13		100%
1958	16	0.00000387	16		100%
1959	63	0.000015152	44	19	40%
1960	81	0.0000195	56	25	38%
1961	60	0.000014485	39	21	30%
1962	55	0.000013629	41	14	49%
1963	45	0.000011369	26	19	16%
1964	56	0.000014405	32	24	14%
1965	42	0.000011585	24	18	14%
1966	32	0.000009207	20	12	25%
1967	42	0.000012372	25	17	19%
1968	28	0.000008288	20	8	43%
1969	46	0.000013236	35	11	52%
1970	74	0.000020518	60	14	62%
1971	106	0.000030883	95	11	79%
1972	160	0.000050907	146	14	82%
1973	161	0.000053366	147	14	83%
1974	188	0.000061842	170	18	81%
1975	179	0.000059283	166	13	85%
1976	178	0.000058663	172	6	93%
1977	194	0.000061074	181	13	87%
1978	175	0.000055138	165	10	89%
1979	154	0.000046288	145	9	88%
1980	152	0.000044128	143	9	88%
1981	131	0.000037868	126	5	92%
1982	113	0.000032212	105	8	86%
1983	119	0.00003436	110	9	85%
1984	140	0.000040129	133	7	90%
1985	191	0.000053515	162	29	70%
1986	1066	0.000299684	1034	32	94%
1987	706	0.000195806	659	47	87%
1988	474	0.00012828	454	20	92%
1989	454	0.000118092	417	37	84%
1990	375	0.000094877	337	38	80%
1991	403	0.000103459	372	31	85%
1992	379	0.000098665	343	36	81%
1993	290	0.000076917	265	25	83%
1994	243	0.000065364	207	36	70%
1995	228	0.000062258	190	38	67%
1996	193	0.000052917	161	32	67%
1997	435	0.000119975	398	37	83%
1998	411	0.000111739	359	52	75%
1999	367	0.000099354	320	47	74%
2000	308	0.000081484	250	58	62%
2001	273	0.000072929	214	59	57%
2002	282	0.000075436	206	76	46%
2003	232	0.000061015	153	79	32%
2004	237	0.000062027	149	88	26%
2005	189	0.000049157	115	74	22%
2006	217	0.000054851	122	95	12%
2007	196	0.000049028	108	88	10%
2008	223	0.000056733	106	117	-5%
2009	199	0.000052092	83	116	-17%
2010	227	0.000061422	124	103	9%
2011	217	0.000059325	138	79	27%
2012	196	0.00005359	112	84	14%
2013	183	0.000050197	108	75	18%
2014	180	0.000048565	79	101	-12%
2015	185	0.000049988	93	92	1%
2016	166	0.000045248	72	94	-13%
2017	129	0.000036072	60	69	-7%
2018	134	0.000038113	55	79	-18%
2019	110	0.000031692	44	66	-20%
2020	110	0.000032928	46	64	-16%
2021	128	0.000037781	51	77	-20%
2022	89	0.000026307	35	54	-21%
2023	101	0.000030503	42	59	-17%
2024	66	0.000019829	32	34	-3%

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