Girls' name · since 1965
Nikie
191 babies named Nikie in U.S. Social Security records since 1965, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #20,310 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 191
- born since 1965
- 1980s
- peak decade
Nikie is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 191 have been recorded since 1965.
Nikie has 191 recorded births among girls since 1965, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1965 to 1993.
- #20,310 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 191 born since 1965
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nikie ranks #20,310 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 191 born since 1965, peaking in the 1980s.
- #20,310 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 191
- born since 1965
- 1980s
- peak decade
Nikie's 191 recorded births place it above 71.91% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Nikie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Nikie's SSA record in two at 1982 and the more recent half accounts for 52% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 48%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1965, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1980 peak of 18, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Nikie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1965–1993
- Peak year (1980)
- 18
- Annual births at peak, across 29 years of records
Nikie by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (101 births, 53% of the file).
1980s was Nikie's strongest decade.
101 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Nikie births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 5
1960s
5 births
- 1970s
1970s
68 births
- 1980s
1980s
101 births
- 1990s 17
1990s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 101 births (53% of all-time use).
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- Nikie's decade-level peak was the 1980s (101 total births); usage has since declined to 17 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Nikie: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1980)
Similar record span (~28 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1965–1993 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Nikie draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.