Meaning not yet researched.
Niki: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #627 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #627 in 1972; #8,214 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Niki in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,214 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #627.
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Niki: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #627 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 248 (1972).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Niki, making it the 8,214th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,839 places from #10,053 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 10 girls named Niki in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #627, reached in 1972. That year also had the most girls given the name: 248. For comparison, it was #6,192 in 2015 and #1,025 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Niki in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1932 with 7 babies. In all, 7,277 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,002 babies named Niki.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 175 US girls were named Niki; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nikki (41,005 babies since 1880), Nickie (4,596 babies since 1880), Nicky (9,442 babies since 1880) and Nicki (6,380 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nykia, Nikiya and Nikiah 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nykia (993), Nikiya (592), Nikiah (170), Nikiea (7).
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 Niki in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,214 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,053 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,853 | — | — |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,642 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,172 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,835 | — | — |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,416 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,179 | — | — |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,625 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,243 | — | — |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,192 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,741 | — | — |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,989 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,076 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,093 | — | — |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,374 | — | — |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,166 | — | — |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,152 | — | — |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,519 | — | — |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,604 | — | — |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,881 | — | — |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,277 | — | — |
| 2002 | 65 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1997 | 78 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,637 | 6 | #8,685 |
| 1995 | 129 | #1,298 | 6 | #8,573 |
| 1994 | 147 | #1,202 | 5 | #9,831 |
| 1993 | 212 | #910 | 6 | #8,382 |
| 1992 | 99 | #1,569 | 5 | #9,411 |
| 1991 | 96 | #1,593 | 5 | #9,194 |
| 1990 | 104 | #1,500 | 9 | #5,690 |
| 1989 | 115 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1988 | 130 | #1,177 | 8 | #5,574 |
| 1987 | 133 | #1,126 | 6 | #6,716 |
| 1986 | 162 | #977 | — | — |
| 1985 | 181 | #885 | — | — |
| 1984 | 142 | #1,008 | 6 | #6,103 |
| 1983 | 131 | #1,063 | 6 | #6,008 |
| 1982 | 178 | #868 | 7 | #5,435 |
| 1981 | 197 | #812 | 8 | #4,829 |
| 1980 | 190 | #829 | 11 | #3,775 |
| 1979 | 184 | #849 | 9 | #4,302 |
| 1978 | 224 | #708 | 13 | #3,175 |
| 1977 | 179 | #836 | 9 | #4,062 |
| 1976 | 206 | #712 | 8 | #4,296 |
| 1975 | 168 | #817 | 13 | #3,027 |
| 1974 | 194 | #735 | 15 | #2,636 |
| 1973 | 227 | #656 | 7 | #4,376 |
| 1972 | 248 | #627 | 13 | #2,774 |
| 1971 | 138 | #937 | 8 | #3,857 |
| 1970 | 133 | #956 | 6 | #4,575 |
| 1969 | 114 | #1,022 | 7 | #3,827 |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,052 | 5 | #4,563 |
| 1967 | 95 | #1,070 | 6 | #3,851 |
| 1966 | 74 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1965 | 60 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1964 | 61 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1962 | 62 | #1,416 | 6 | #3,910 |
| 1961 | 61 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1959 | 56 | #1,447 | 5 | #4,396 |
| 1958 | 48 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 1957 | 72 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1956 | 52 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1954 | 65 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1953 | 85 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1952 | 71 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1951 | 81 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1950 | 80 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1946 | 22 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,863 | 5 | #3,640 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,209 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,751 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,816 | — | — |
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).