Meaning not yet researched.
Nikki: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #173 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #173 in 1972; #3,504 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nikki in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,504 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #173.
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Nikki: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 girls in 2025. Peak: #173 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 1,704 (1972).
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Nikki, making it the 3,504th most common girls’ name of the year, down 63 places from #3,441 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 46 girls named Nikki in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #173, reached in 1972. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,704. For comparison, it was #1,604 in 2015 and #530 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nikki in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 8 babies. In all, 41,005 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 11,095 babies named Nikki.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 688 US girls were named Nikki; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nicky (9,442 babies since 1880), Niki (7,277 babies since 1880), Nicki (6,380 babies since 1880) and Nickie (4,596 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nikkie, Nikea and Nickia 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: Nikkie (730), Nikea (328), Nickia (260), Nikya (247), Nikie (191), Nikky (123), Nikeia (62), Nickki (38), Nikkea (28), Nikkii (21), Nehki (19), Nikyia (19), and more.
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 Nikki in the open dataset we use.
Nikki is listed as a nickname for Nichole, Nicholette, Nicole, Nikole.
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 | 44 | #3,504 | — | — |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,441 | — | — |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,677 | 5 | #13,499 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,421 | — | — |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 2017 | 108 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 2015 | 134 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 2014 | 142 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 2013 | 118 | #1,751 | 5 | #13,497 |
| 2012 | 127 | #1,679 | 14 | #6,216 |
| 2011 | 156 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 2010 | 169 | #1,377 | 7 | #10,434 |
| 2009 | 180 | #1,338 | 7 | #10,655 |
| 2008 | 191 | #1,308 | 6 | #12,135 |
| 2007 | 247 | #1,063 | 5 | #13,831 |
| 2006 | 255 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 2005 | 253 | #969 | 8 | #8,872 |
| 2004 | 285 | #863 | — | — |
| 2003 | 304 | #812 | 6 | #10,499 |
| 2002 | 328 | #742 | 6 | #10,289 |
| 2001 | 337 | #723 | 11 | #6,315 |
| 2000 | 443 | #585 | 8 | #7,971 |
| 1999 | 407 | #599 | 10 | #6,369 |
| 1998 | 530 | #482 | 7 | #8,193 |
| 1997 | 564 | #449 | 11 | #5,551 |
| 1996 | 691 | #385 | 8 | #6,937 |
| 1995 | 692 | #381 | 19 | #3,523 |
| 1994 | 842 | #322 | 22 | #3,185 |
| 1993 | 997 | #280 | 35 | #2,244 |
| 1992 | 892 | #311 | 33 | #2,288 |
| 1991 | 838 | #321 | 40 | #1,942 |
| 1990 | 985 | #282 | 40 | #1,929 |
| 1989 | 1,003 | #267 | 44 | #1,753 |
| 1988 | 1,023 | #252 | 38 | #1,810 |
| 1987 | 1,072 | #242 | 36 | #1,823 |
| 1986 | 1,007 | #256 | 25 | #2,272 |
| 1985 | 1,195 | #218 | 30 | #1,954 |
| 1984 | 1,002 | #249 | 20 | #2,506 |
| 1983 | 945 | #250 | 9 | #4,384 |
| 1982 | 1,073 | #236 | 15 | #3,062 |
| 1981 | 1,037 | #240 | 12 | #3,550 |
| 1980 | 1,045 | #247 | 12 | #3,555 |
| 1979 | 1,085 | #237 | 12 | #3,502 |
| 1978 | 1,095 | #226 | 29 | #1,820 |
| 1977 | 948 | #263 | 19 | #2,432 |
| 1976 | 1,009 | #235 | 31 | #1,698 |
| 1975 | 1,103 | #222 | 23 | #2,044 |
| 1974 | 1,108 | #230 | 24 | #1,919 |
| 1973 | 1,290 | #199 | 20 | #2,102 |
| 1972 | 1,704 | #173 | 32 | #1,528 |
| 1971 | 877 | #306 | 17 | #2,344 |
| 1970 | 657 | #369 | 12 | #2,835 |
| 1969 | 493 | #435 | 11 | #2,809 |
| 1968 | 399 | #483 | 5 | #4,564 |
| 1967 | 418 | #464 | 6 | #3,852 |
| 1966 | 291 | #556 | — | — |
| 1965 | 232 | #644 | 7 | #3,462 |
| 1964 | 266 | #615 | 9 | #2,994 |
| 1963 | 276 | #600 | 11 | #2,632 |
| 1962 | 246 | #644 | 11 | #2,626 |
| 1961 | 299 | #584 | 14 | #2,307 |
| 1960 | 195 | #725 | 5 | #4,434 |
| 1959 | 190 | #738 | 6 | #3,877 |
| 1958 | 197 | #702 | 6 | #3,811 |
| 1957 | 196 | #710 | — | — |
| 1956 | 173 | #735 | — | — |
| 1955 | 196 | #670 | — | — |
| 1954 | 244 | #578 | 6 | #3,712 |
| 1953 | 240 | #566 | — | — |
| 1952 | 250 | #544 | 9 | #2,818 |
| 1951 | 249 | #528 | — | — |
| 1950 | 244 | #530 | — | — |
| 1949 | 251 | #515 | — | — |
| 1948 | 253 | #519 | 6 | #3,569 |
| 1947 | 238 | #548 | 6 | #3,635 |
| 1946 | 193 | #578 | — | — |
| 1945 | 137 | #622 | — | — |
| 1944 | 161 | #580 | — | — |
| 1943 | 190 | #543 | 5 | #3,899 |
| 1942 | 85 | #831 | — | — |
| 1941 | 68 | #890 | — | — |
| 1940 | 41 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1939 | 38 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,708 | — | — |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,816 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,093 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,097 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,912 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,607 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,237 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,672 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,803 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,934 | — | — |
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).