Nikala
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Nikala is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
- GEGeorgia1 in 49Kas ნიკალა
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nikala itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2M (inferred from the name graph)
150 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nikala counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 150 | 1 in 2.2M | 150 | — | 4 |
| GE Georgia | 82as ნიკალა | 1 in 49K | 82 | Nikala | 17 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | 19 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | — | 2 | — | — |
150 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Nikala is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hawaiian, nickel (chemical element)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Mēness dieviete ugaritiešu (kanaāniešu) mitoloģijā, mēness dieva Jariha sieva
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 150 | #45,337 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Nikala a male or female name?
- Nikala is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Nikala have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 150 people named Nikala, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nikala most common?
- Nikala is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nikala?
- In the United States, the national register counted 150 people named Nikala in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nikala?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nikalaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nikala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.