Nicki
Nicki is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 736th, in 1972.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1972190 births
- Best rank
- #736in 1972
- Since 1923
- 6,380people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,083 girls have been named Nicki in the United States since 1923, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 190 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 190 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1972, and the 1970s alone account for 22%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 297 boys have also been given it, 4.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Nicki | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 12 | |
| 1930s | 36 | |
| 1940s | 660 | |
| 1950s | 1,060 | |
| 1960s | 975 | |
| 1970s | 1,340 | |
| 1980s | 1,223 | |
| 1990s | 481 | |
| 2000s | 150 | |
| 2010s | 127 | |
| 2020s | 19 |
In 1972, its biggest year
Nicki was the 736th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1972 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1972.
Names that rose and fell with Nicki
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nickiepeak 1972
- Gennypeak 1971
- Tanapeak 1962
- Lesleepeak 1957
- Cherepeak 1954
- Charlettapeak 1968
- Rebbeccapeak 1975
- Kristeenpeak 1971
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.