Nicki
Nicki was last recorded in 2022, when 10 babies were given it; 6,380 Americans have been recorded with it between 1923 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,520 Americans named Nicki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 42 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nicki mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nicki is “a diminutive of the female given names Nicola and Nicole.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.”
Clipping + -i (diminutive suffix).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nicki?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,197, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
190 babies in 1972, the peak
Nicki peaked in 1972, when 190 girls were given it, #736 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 | #10,197 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,860 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,083 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,457 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,719 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,636 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,317 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,958 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,410 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,056 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | #6,281 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,995 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,260 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,007 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,994 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,122 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,706 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,907 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,807 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,949 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,001 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,712 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,978 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,545 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,806 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,542 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,470 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,522 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,368 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,416 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,100 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,242 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,485 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 92 | #1,486 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 103 | #1,332 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 126 | #1,141 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 129 | #1,123 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 117 | #1,164 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 143 | #1,003 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 128 | #1,104 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 138 | #1,040 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 149 | #993 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 151 | #962 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 117 | #1,116 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 114 | #1,124 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 110 | #1,101 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 130 | #961 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 144 | #894 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 167 | #792 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 190 | #736 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 103 | #1,137 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 114 | #1,071 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 121 | #980 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 101 | #1,039 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 100 | #1,033 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 94 | #1,086 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 72 | #1,271 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 97 | #1,117 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 90 | #1,156 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 96 | #1,113 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 109 | #1,054 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 95 | #1,110 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 75 | #1,240 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 113 | #978 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 108 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 112 | #952 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 106 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 121 | #870 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 101 | #942 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 111 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 108 | #864 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 105 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 88 | #954 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 107 | #846 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 116 | #811 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 98 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 78 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 51 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 49 | #1,164 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,260 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,074 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,182 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,016 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,378 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,712 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,160 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,691 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,815 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,380 Americans recorded as Nicki, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nicki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicki, and how old are they?
5,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 6,380 Americans ever recorded as Nicki. The median Nicki alive today is 53 years old; half are between 42 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 6,844 people named Nicki (6,567 women and girls, 277 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,759 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 154 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,590 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,940 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 303 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 93 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nicki born?
The states with the most babies named Nicki are California, Texas and Ohio, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 625 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 423 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 264 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 218 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 177 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 122 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 98 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 93 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 80 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 63 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nicki with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 67,917 babies since 1880, Nicki is the third most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 107 babies recorded by SSA was a Nicki (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 Nicki
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Nicki and names like it
- Compare Nicki and NikkiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNicki peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicki since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Nicki.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nicki alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.