girls:
132 births since 1916
#5584 (2nd percentile)
boys:
50.2k births since 1880
#498 (89th percentile)
overall:
50.3k births since 1880
#1071 (86th percentile)
The name Nick is the #1,071 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 50,330 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #498 (89.2% percentile) for all time with 50,198 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,584 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 132 births since 1916.
Nick has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1916 for girls).
The name Nick has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Nick reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 68.1% percentile (ranked #170) with 726 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 735 births per million (ranked 66.3% percentile). Despite a low point around 2015, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Nick ranks #775 for boys (14.9% percentile) with 77 births per million, which is 10.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nick reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #607) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nick".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Nick. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Nick is pronounced as nihk, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is neek, at 9.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like N IH1 K) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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