Nikki
Nikki is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 46 births. Its best rank was 173rd, in 1972.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 460.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19721,704 births
- Best rank
- #173in 1972
- Since 1925
- 40,960people given the name
The story in the numbers
40,064 girls have been named Nikki in the United States since 1925, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 1,704 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 46 births in 2024, against 1,704 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1970s alone account for 27%. It has spent 65 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 896 boys have also been given it, 2.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Nikki | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 35 | |
| 1930s | 90 | |
| 1940s | 1,617 | |
| 1950s | 2,179 | |
| 1960s | 3,115 | |
| 1970s | 10,876 | |
| 1980s | 10,404 | |
| 1990s | 7,438 | |
| 2000s | 2,822 | |
| 2010s | 1,198 | |
| 2020s | 290 |
In 1972, its biggest year
Nikki was the 173rd 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 Nikki
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Christapeak 1986
- Nikipeak 1972
- Cristapeak 1971
- Kristapeak 1986
- Hollipeak 1983
- Katrinapeak 1980
- Erickapeak 1971
- Rachelepeak 1984
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.