girls:
332 births since 1934
#5384 (6th percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1921
#3031 (34th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1921
#5777 (25th percentile)
The name Nickey is the #5,777 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,995 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 25.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,031 (33.9% percentile) for all time with 1,663 births since 1921. For girls, it ranks #5,384 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 332 births since 1934.
Nickey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for boys and 1934 for girls). Birth data for Nickey is available in 75 out of the 88 years between 1921 and 2008 (73 years for boys and 34 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nickey has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2008, 100.0% of babies named Nickey were boys.
For boys, Nickey reached its peak popularity in 1953, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #562) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 28 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
For girls, Nickey reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #785) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nickey".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Nickey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Nickey is pronounced as NIH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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