Is Nikita a male or female name?
Nikita is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 79% and male usage in Poland at 98%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 52%
- Sample size
- 35,550
- Confidence
- high
Nikita by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 79% | 13,602 | ssa |
| Poland PL | male | 98% | 9,651 | pesel |
| England and Wales GB | female | 83% | 4,417 | ons |
| Canada CA | female | 75% | 2,149 | statcan |
| Spain ES | male | 100% | 1,713 | ine |
| France FR | female | 66% | 1,710 | insee |
| Switzerland CH | male | 69% | 1,128 | bfs |
| Ireland IE | female | 78% | 927 | cso |
| Austria AT | male | 52% | 249 | statat |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 4 | ssb |
Attested in 24 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AM · AT · AU · BE · BY · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · KZ · LK · LT · MD · NO · NZ · PL · RU · SE · UA · US · UZ
Nikita over time
In the United States, 81.4% of the babies named Nikita in the 1950s were girls, against 41.7% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 83.9% of the babies named Nikita in the 1990s were girls, against 43.2% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 81% | 102 | — | |
| 1960s | 65% | 487 | — | |
| 1970s | 92% | 1,569 | — | |
| 1980s | 94% | 3,544 | — | |
| 1990s | 89% | 3,324 | 84% | 620 |
| 2000s | 64% | 2,354 | 68% | 395 |
| 2010s | 51% | 1,723 | 47% | 360 |
| 2020s | 42% | 494 | 43% | 220 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Nikita with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Nikita&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Nikita
Is Nikita a male or female name?
Nikita is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 79% and male usage in Poland at 98%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Nikita change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Nikita identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.