 The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 2,216 people (2002 census).In Serbian the village is known as "Nikinci" (Никинци), in Croatian as "Nikinci", and in Hungarian as "Nyékinca".The name of the town in Serbian is in the plural, and therefore it is grammatically correct to refer to it as ""Nikinci are"" instead of ""Nikinci is"".