Nickey — boys' name

What the Data Says About Nickey

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,663 babies named Nickey between 1921 and 2008, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nickey currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1959, when 52 babies received it in a single year. Nickey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 332 additional births since 1934.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nickey performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 432 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Nickey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 112 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Nickey in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nickey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,663 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.