Victory and people elements, in the Nicolaas-related interpretation.
The name bank explicitly directs its Nika explanation to Nicolaas, whose entry analyzes Greek victory and people elements. This meaning is qualified to that recorded Nicolaas-related interpretation. Nika is not universally reduced to a single victory word, nor assigned a predicted personality. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; credit: KNAW / Meertens Instituut, Nederlandse Voornamenbank. No passage, image or recording reproduced.
Origin
Greek-rooted Nicolaas name family, in the Dutch name bank’s interpretation.
The exact Nika explanation in the Dutch academic name bank refers readers to Nicolaas. Its Nicolaas entry explains Greek name elements. This documents one name-family interpretation; it does not establish every Georgian, Persian, Russian or Slovene history associated with this spelling. The existing Slovene usage and native reading remain separate. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; credit: KNAW / Meertens Instituut, Nederlandse Voornamenbank. No passage, image or recording reproduced.
English pronunciation
Not yet published for this spelling.
Published name usage
Counts apply only to the exact spelling, place, year and recorded usage shown. Places are separate; these figures are never added into a worldwide total. Missing or suppressed records never mean zero.
Latest published record available for this spelling in each place and recorded usage
Place
Year
Recorded usage
Published births
Rank
Notes
Canada
2025
Girls
16 · preliminary
1495
2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published.
Canada
2019
Boys
5
2756
2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published.
France
2024
Girls
5 (rounded to 5)
4289
Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published.
France
2025
Boys
5 (rounded to 5)
6472
Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published.
England & Wales
2025
Girls
9
2788
Published ranks differ from ranks calculated over visible rows. Counts retained; automated trend labels withheld. Rank basis: source published.
Ireland
2025
Girls
5
608
Names below three occurrences are unpublished. Accent recording changed in 2018; comparisons across that boundary may not describe the same spelling coverage. Counts refer to registrations in the year. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Rank basis: source published.
United States
2025
Girls
50
3167
Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts.
United States
2003
Boys
5
10894
Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts.
Canada, Ireland and France coverage includes confidently matched existing profiles only; unmatched spellings are awaiting review. French counts are rounded to five.
Sources & notes
Open an entry for its source, credit, licence and full qualifications. Different name traditions remain separate.
Language of use: Serbo-Croatian
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Exact section explicitly records female given-name use, separate from its mythological sense. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Nika&oldid=92997782. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names condensed the relevant personal-name sections and retained language and relationship qualifiers. Native readings are not English pronunciations; no audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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Language of use: Slovak
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Personal-name use as a diminutive of Dominika, separate from the mythological Nike sense. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Nika&oldid=92997782. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names condensed the relevant personal-name sections and retained language and relationship qualifiers. Native readings are not English pronunciations; no audio reused.
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Language of use: Slovene
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The reviewed Slovene section explicitly documents a given name. Language of use is separate from a settled origin or literal meaning.
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Meaning: Victory and people elements, in the Nicolaas-related interpretation.
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The name bank explicitly directs its Nika explanation to Nicolaas, whose entry analyzes Greek victory and people elements. This meaning is qualified to that recorded Nicolaas-related interpretation. Nika is not universally reduced to a single victory word, nor assigned a predicted personality. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; credit: KNAW / Meertens Instituut, Nederlandse Voornamenbank. No passage, image or recording reproduced.
Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; cited KNAW / Meertens Instituut Nederlandse Voornamenbank; no open-data licence asserted for the source website.
Name history: The Dutch academic name bank interprets this spelling with reference to Nicolaas.
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This is a recorded lexical interpretation, separate from the existing Slovene name-use evidence. The source cross-reference is not treated as proof of one universal cultural history. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; credit: KNAW / Meertens Instituut, Nederlandse Voornamenbank. No passage, image or recording reproduced.
Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; cited KNAW / Meertens Instituut Nederlandse Voornamenbank; no open-data licence asserted for the source website.
Pronunciation in the source language: /níːka/
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Documented Slovene name reading. This is a source-language pronunciation, not an English pronunciation guide; regional and preferred readings can differ.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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Pronunciation in the source language: Serbo-Croatian: /nǐːka/
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Native reading in the Serbo-Croatian section that records female given-name use. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Nika&oldid=92997782. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names condensed the relevant personal-name sections and retained language and relationship qualifiers. Native readings are not English pronunciations; no audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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Pronunciation in the source language: Slovak: /nika/, [ˈnika]
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Native Slovak reading in the exact entry containing the Dominika diminutive sense. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Nika&oldid=92997782. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names condensed the relevant personal-name sections and retained language and relationship qualifiers. Native readings are not English pronunciations; no audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Short form of: Dominika
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Slovak diminutive of Dominika; a separate tradition from the Dutch Nicolaas-related interpretation. This is a name Nika can be short for, not a nickname for Nika. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Nika&oldid=92997782. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names condensed the relevant personal-name sections and retained language and relationship qualifiers. Native readings are not English pronunciations; no audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Origin: Greek-rooted Nicolaas name family, in the Dutch name bank’s interpretation.
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The exact Nika explanation in the Dutch academic name bank refers readers to Nicolaas. Its Nicolaas entry explains Greek name elements. This documents one name-family interpretation; it does not establish every Georgian, Persian, Russian or Slovene history associated with this spelling. The existing Slovene usage and native reading remain separate. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; credit: KNAW / Meertens Instituut, Nederlandse Voornamenbank. No passage, image or recording reproduced.
Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; cited KNAW / Meertens Instituut Nederlandse Voornamenbank; no open-data licence asserted for the source website.
Related name: Nicolaas
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An explicit cross-reference in the exact academic Nika explanation establishes a name-family relationship. The source does not specify a universal nickname status, and spelling-specific statistics remain separate. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; credit: KNAW / Meertens Instituut, Nederlandse Voornamenbank. No passage, image or recording reproduced.
Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; cited KNAW / Meertens Instituut Nederlandse Voornamenbank; no open-data licence asserted for the source website.
Supporting evidence: Nicolaas · academic explanation of Greek name elements
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Supporting root evidence for the qualified name-bank interpretation. Only the linguistic facts are summarized; saint biographies and festival descriptions are not reproduced. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; credit: KNAW / Meertens Instituut, Nederlandse Voornamenbank. No passage, image or recording reproduced.
Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; cited KNAW / Meertens Instituut Nederlandse Voornamenbank; no open-data licence asserted for the source website.
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Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.
Credit: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.
License: Statistics Canada Open Licence
Adaptation: Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators, Table 17-10-0147-01, reference years 1991–2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Central Statistics Office, Ireland, VSA50 and VSA60, updated 27 February 2026.
Credit: Central Statistics Office, Ireland, VSA50 and VSA60, updated 27 February 2026.
License: CC BY 4.0
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: joined the published count and rank indicators and matched unambiguous existing spellings. Source values retained.
Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.
Credit: Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.
License: Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: column names and sex codes mapped and unique case-only spellings matched to existing profiles. Published rounded counts and ranks retained.
