Shikha

Girl · recorded 1982–2019

  • 2019last recorded
  • 1996best year

Most popular in 1996.

Last recorded in 2019. Fewer than five girls a year have been given it since, so it's a true rarity.

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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Shikha.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1982

04819821991200120102019

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 34 recorded years as a table
Shikha, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19825
19837
19844
19854
19875
19884
19897
19903
19915
19923
19934
19947
19968
19974
19985
19996
20003
20016
20024
20033
20045
20057
20065
20074
20083
20095
20105
20125
20134
20144
20155
20173
20183
20194

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Shikha isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2019
6
Rank in 2019
#13,799
How rare
1 in 279,727 girls
Since 1982
278

Shikha was last recorded in 2019. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1996, at 8 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Shikha doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.