Nikayla
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 13 babies a year in the US.
Nikayla by the numbers
Nikayla was given to 13 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 67 babies in 1999, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Nikayla
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Nikayla. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Nikayla
Names that are said the same way as Nikayla, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Nicolavictory of the people; a form of Nicholas37 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Nikayla
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