Niki
Niki was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,212 among girls’ names; 7,277 Americans have been recorded with it since 1932 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,700 Americans named Niki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 34 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Niki mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Niki is “a transliteration of the Greek female given name Νίκη (Níki).”
Also “a diminutive of the female given names Nicole, Nichole, Nicola, and Nichola”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Niki?
#8,212 among girls’ names, 2025
Niki fell from #6,190 in 2015 to #8,212 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 8.1 per million.
261 babies in 1972, the peak
Niki peaked in 1972, when 261 babies were given it (248 girls, #627 among girls’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,212 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,048 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,848 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,637 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,167 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,830 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,412 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,175 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,621 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,242 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,190 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,739 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,987 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,074 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,090 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,373 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,165 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,151 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,518 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,603 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,156 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,877 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,273 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 65 | #2,457 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,862 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,528 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,392 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,075 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 78 | #1,893 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,635 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 129 | #1,295 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 147 | #1,199 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 212 | #909 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 99 | #1,566 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 96 | #1,587 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 104 | #1,496 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 115 | #1,343 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 130 | #1,176 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 133 | #1,126 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 162 | #977 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 181 | #885 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 142 | #1,008 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 131 | #1,063 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 178 | #868 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 197 | #812 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 190 | #829 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 184 | #849 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 224 | #708 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 179 | #836 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 206 | #712 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 168 | #817 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 194 | #735 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 227 | #656 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 248 | #627 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 138 | #937 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 133 | #956 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 114 | #1,022 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,052 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 95 | #1,070 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 74 | #1,258 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 60 | #1,432 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 61 | #1,457 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,383 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 62 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 61 | #1,432 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,590 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 56 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 48 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 72 | #1,242 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 52 | #1,475 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,492 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 65 | #1,238 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 85 | #1,052 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 71 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 81 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 80 | #1,024 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,366 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,431 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,452 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 22 | #2,006 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,862 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,535 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,884 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,628 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,077 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,207 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,814 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Niki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,277 Americans recorded as Niki, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Niki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niki, and how old are they?
6,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 7,277 Americans ever recorded as Niki. The median Niki alive today is 46 years old; half are between 34 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 8,235 people named Niki (7,909 women and girls, 326 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,789 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 66 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 875 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,480 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,260 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 252 |
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 Niki born?
The states with the most babies named Niki are California, Texas and New York, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 792 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 419 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 393 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 233 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 228 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 204 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 125 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 119 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 114 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 108 | not ranked | 0.6× |
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 Niki 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 68,180 babies since 1880, Niki is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 107 babies (12%), the third most given that year.
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 Niki
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 Niki and names like it
- Compare Niki and NikkiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNiki peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Niki since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Niki.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Niki alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.