Nic
Nic was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 77 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nic by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nic mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nic is “a diminutive of the female given name Nicola, Nichola, and Nicole.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nic?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,470, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1977, the peak
Nic peaked in 1977, when 10 boys were given it, #3,767 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #13,470 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,925 | 2.9 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,652 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,183 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,086 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,801 | 2.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,963 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,767 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,404 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,854 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 | #4,352 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,462 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,568 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nic a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nic has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nic: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nic, and how old are they?
An estimated 70 Americans named Nic and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,328 people named Nic (549 women and girls, 2,779 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 72 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Nic rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 50,883 babies since 1880, Nic is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 131 babies recorded by SSA was a Nic (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nic
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Joby | 1,242 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nic and names like it
- Compare Nic and NickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNic peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Nic.
- Names starting with NMost given first.