Nika
A Slavic name that means "victory". Around 2,700 Poles carry it, and unusually the name splits across genders: close to a third of them are men.
Nika Pronunciation
Nika is pronounced NYEE-kah (/ˈɲika/).
What Nika means
Where Nika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nika comes from Slavic naming, and its meaning is easy to state: victory, or zwycięstwo in Polish. That sense of victory reaches back to the Greek Nike, the winged goddess, whose name entered Slavic use through fuller forms like Weronika and Nikola. Nika stands on its own as the short version of that family.
The meaning is plain. Beside it sit the variant Nikoleta and the diminutive Nikol, both holding the same root. In a school class register you might find a Nika, a Nikol, and a Nikoleta on nearby lines, all pointing back to the one word.
Victory here describes the root more than any promise about a child. The old Greek sense stays attached wherever the name is written down. Nika means zwycięstwo.
How many people are named Nika
1 in 13176 women in Poland is named Nika. 2,697 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #617 among female names.
Nika's popularity over time
19 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #526 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2004.
Where parents choose Nika
Nika is most popular in Podlaskie, 162% above the national average (11 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+89%) and Masovian (+81%). It is least common in Silesian and Łódź, 72% and 63% below average respectively.
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Podlaskie
+162%1 in 5,981 babies
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Lubusz
+89%1 in 8,276 babies
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Masovian
+81%1 in 8,641 babies
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Silesian
−72%1 in 56,896 babies
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Łódź
−63%1 in 42,239 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−57%1 in 36,460 babies
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Podlaskie+162% 11 born1 in 5,981 babies+162%
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Lubusz+89% 6 born1 in 8,276 babies+89%
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Masovian+81% 41 born1 in 8,641 babies+81%
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Lower Silesian+79% 18 born1 in 8,730 babies+79%
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Pomeranian+70% 16 born1 in 9,208 babies+70%
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Lublin−8% 6 born1 in 17,113 babies−8%
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Greater Poland−13% 12 born1 in 17,937 babies−13%
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Lesser Poland−17% 12 born1 in 18,910 babies−17%
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West Pomeranian−26% 4 born1 in 21,106 babies−26%
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Warmian-Masurian−56% 2 born1 in 35,897 babies−56%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−57% 3 born1 in 36,460 babies−57%
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Łódź−63% 3 born1 in 42,239 babies−63%
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Silesian−72% 4 born1 in 56,896 babies−72%
Nika as a middle name
Nika is a first name for 2,697 women in Poland and a middle name for another 58, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 903rd, between Melody (58) and Patrizia (58).
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#901 Marguerite58
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#902 Melody58
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#903 Nika58
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#904 Patrizia58
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#905 Beth57