Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Nikitas

#17,452 most common boys' name of all time · #45,585 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1973–2015

Rank among boys
#17,452
Rank overall
#45,585 of 105,966
First appeared
1973
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
73
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1977 #4,107
Best rank
#4,107 1977
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
19802000

Nikitas first appears in 1973. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2015 — 6 6 #10,989
2010 — 6 6 #11,110
2004 — 6 6 #10,359
2003 — 7 7 #8,921
1992 — 6 6 #7,850
1986 — 5 5 #7,294
1979 — 5 5 #6,694
1978 — 7 7 #4,935
1977 — 9 9 #4,107
1976 — 5 5 #6,175
1974 — 5 5 #5,820
1973 — 6 6 #5,075