Nikkita vs Niko

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Nikkita Niko

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 60 years in which either name was published, Niko for 53 years and Nikkita for 7 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1962–1975 Niko ahead
• 1976 Nikkita ahead
• 1977 Niko ahead
• 1978–1980 Nikkita ahead
• 1981–1984 Niko ahead
• 1985–1987 Nikkita ahead
• 1988–2025 Niko ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Nikkitas alive today are over 35; half the Nikos are over 7. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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