Nikkie — girls' name
730 babies named Nikkie in U.S. Social Security records since 1948, with the highest year being 1985. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Nikkie was born in this single decade.
31 babies were named Nikkie in 1985 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nikkie
The Social Security Administration has registered 730 babies named Nikkie between 1948 and 2016, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nikkie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 31 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nikkie performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 207 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Nikkie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Nikkie in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nikkie 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 730 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.
Nikkie at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nikkie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1948
- Peak year (1985)
- 31
- Annual births at peak — across 69 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
730 total births across 69 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1985 with 31 births in a single year.
Nikkie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 207 births that decade — 28% of Nikkie's all-time total
Nikkie decade highlights
- Peak decade 207 births
- Runner-up 174 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Nikkie's strongest decade
207 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Nikkie by state
Where Nikkie concentrates geographically — total births since 1948
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 23 | 3.2% |
| #2 | Louisiana | | 5 | 0.7% |
23 of 730 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 3.2% of nationwide
- Louisiana 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1948–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.