Meaning not yet researched.
Nick: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 124 in 2025. Its best rank was #173 in 1918.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #173 in 1918; #1,447 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nick in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,447 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1918, at #173.
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Nick: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 124 boys in 2025. Peak: #173 in 1918 · most boys in one year: 1,098 (1960).
In 2025, 124 US boys were named Nick, making it the 1,447th most common boys’ name of the year, down 26 places from #1,421 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 130 boys named Nick in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #173, reached in 1918. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,098, in 1960. For comparison, it was #1,214 in 2015 and #329 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nick in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 40 babies with the name. In all, 50,589 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 8,021 babies named Nick.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,375 US boys were named Nick; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 175. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,775 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nick ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #886 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Nike, Nik and Nic are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nike (314), Nik (217), Nic (77), Niche (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nick in the open dataset we use.
Nick is listed as a nickname for Dominick, Nicholas, Nicodemus, Nicolas, Nikolas.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 5 | #886 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #961 | — |
| New York | 13 | #977 | #933 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,003 | — |
| California | 21 | #1,029 | #731 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,138 | #608 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,243 | #1,015 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,427 | #1,157 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,488 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #1,860 | #1,428 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 124 | #1,447 |
| 2024 | — | — | 130 | #1,421 |
| 2023 | — | — | 143 | #1,334 |
| 2022 | — | — | 137 | #1,372 |
| 2021 | — | — | 133 | #1,382 |
| 2020 | — | — | 122 | #1,421 |
| 2019 | — | — | 141 | #1,307 |
| 2018 | — | — | 123 | #1,429 |
| 2017 | — | — | 147 | #1,247 |
| 2016 | — | — | 175 | #1,117 |
| 2015 | — | — | 152 | #1,214 |
| 2014 | — | — | 157 | #1,185 |
| 2013 | — | — | 174 | #1,079 |
| 2012 | — | — | 157 | #1,166 |
| 2011 | — | — | 154 | #1,165 |
| 2010 | — | — | 176 | #1,096 |
| 2009 | — | — | 197 | #1,001 |
| 2008 | — | — | 236 | #891 |
| 2007 | — | — | 227 | #887 |
| 2006 | — | — | 251 | #814 |
| 2005 | — | — | 233 | #813 |
| 2004 | — | — | 208 | #855 |
| 2003 | — | — | 203 | #854 |
| 2002 | — | — | 201 | #830 |
| 2001 | — | — | 198 | #827 |
| 2000 | — | — | 217 | #768 |
| 1999 | — | — | 204 | #779 |
| 1998 | — | — | 179 | #828 |
| 1997 | — | — | 147 | #927 |
| 1996 | — | — | 173 | #830 |
| 1995 | — | — | 217 | #726 |
| 1994 | — | — | 197 | #748 |
| 1993 | — | — | 217 | #705 |
| 1992 | — | — | 226 | #688 |
| 1991 | — | — | 197 | #722 |
| 1990 | — | — | 232 | #663 |
| 1989 | — | — | 251 | #630 |
| 1988 | — | — | 241 | #609 |
| 1987 | — | — | 274 | #549 |
| 1986 | — | — | 292 | #521 |
| 1985 | — | — | 255 | #551 |
| 1984 | — | — | 278 | #510 |
| 1983 | — | — | 259 | #520 |
| 1982 | — | — | 267 | #522 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,978 | 293 | #489 |
| 1980 | — | — | 317 | #472 |
| 1979 | — | — | 373 | #411 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,352 | 402 | #389 |
| 1977 | — | — | 425 | #379 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,370 | 405 | #382 |
| 1975 | — | — | 447 | #370 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,390 | 504 | #344 |
| 1973 | — | — | 550 | #320 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,173 | 553 | #325 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,199 | 565 | #330 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,904 | 666 | #304 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,209 | 655 | #298 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,830 | 665 | #285 |
| 1967 | — | — | 682 | #276 |
| 1966 | — | — | 685 | #279 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,302 | 718 | #281 |
| 1964 | — | — | 798 | #273 |
| 1963 | — | — | 871 | #261 |
| 1962 | — | — | 896 | #257 |
| 1961 | — | — | 936 | #256 |
| 1960 | — | — | 1,098 | #242 |
| 1959 | — | — | 1,054 | #247 |
| 1958 | — | — | 848 | #266 |
| 1957 | — | — | 690 | #282 |
| 1956 | — | — | 493 | #336 |
| 1955 | — | — | 471 | #338 |
| 1954 | — | — | 430 | #343 |
| 1953 | — | — | 419 | #340 |
| 1952 | — | — | 420 | #340 |
| 1951 | — | — | 448 | #323 |
| 1950 | — | — | 422 | #329 |
| 1949 | — | — | 446 | #326 |
| 1948 | — | — | 547 | #294 |
| 1947 | — | — | 646 | #264 |
| 1946 | — | — | 565 | #268 |
| 1945 | — | — | 491 | #266 |
| 1944 | — | — | 498 | #267 |
| 1943 | — | — | 558 | #252 |
| 1942 | — | — | 520 | #258 |
| 1941 | — | — | 440 | #273 |
| 1940 | — | — | 409 | #277 |
| 1939 | — | — | 405 | #272 |
| 1938 | — | — | 400 | #278 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,707 | 395 | #275 |
| 1936 | — | — | 421 | #262 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,713 | 456 | #255 |
| 1934 | — | — | 465 | #248 |
| 1933 | — | — | 499 | #231 |
| 1932 | — | — | 490 | #241 |
| 1931 | — | — | 512 | #231 |
| 1930 | — | — | 630 | #210 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,093 | 588 | #216 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,236 | 604 | #217 |
| 1927 | — | — | 616 | #216 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,192 | 642 | #213 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,812 | 691 | #203 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,906 | 747 | #189 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,256 | 690 | #198 |
| 1922 | — | — | 790 | #178 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,933 | 765 | #183 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,554 | 699 | #194 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,650 | 682 | #188 |
| 1918 | — | — | 761 | #173 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,110 | 705 | #177 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,952 | 656 | #182 |
| 1915 | — | — | 642 | #177 |
| 1914 | — | — | 425 | #196 |
| 1913 | — | — | 310 | #211 |
| 1912 | — | — | 248 | #219 |
| 1911 | — | — | 130 | #220 |
| 1910 | — | — | 124 | #209 |
| 1909 | — | — | 79 | #251 |
| 1908 | — | — | 84 | #228 |
| 1907 | — | — | 77 | #232 |
| 1906 | — | — | 67 | #239 |
| 1905 | — | — | 52 | #275 |
| 1904 | — | — | 57 | #255 |
| 1903 | — | — | 46 | #275 |
| 1902 | — | — | 37 | #324 |
| 1901 | — | — | 40 | #274 |
| 1900 | — | — | 49 | #300 |
| 1899 | — | — | 28 | #342 |
| 1898 | — | — | 37 | #319 |
| 1897 | — | — | 39 | #296 |
| 1896 | — | — | 31 | #350 |
| 1895 | — | — | 29 | #344 |
| 1894 | — | — | 38 | #287 |
| 1893 | — | — | 22 | #389 |
| 1892 | — | — | 37 | #308 |
| 1891 | — | — | 40 | #255 |
| 1890 | — | — | 45 | #253 |
| 1889 | — | — | 34 | #292 |
| 1888 | — | — | 48 | #255 |
| 1887 | — | — | 29 | #309 |
| 1886 | — | — | 47 | #251 |
| 1885 | — | — | 38 | #272 |
| 1884 | — | — | 48 | #250 |
| 1883 | — | — | 36 | #277 |
| 1882 | — | — | 35 | #293 |
| 1881 | — | — | 39 | #255 |
| 1880 | — | — | 40 | #269 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).