girls:
6.1k births since 1923
#2129 (63rd percentile)
boys:
297 births since 1941
#4289 (6th percentile)
overall:
6.4k births since 1923
#3397 (56th percentile)
The name Nicki is the #3,397 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,380 recorded births since 1923. This represents the 56.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,129 (62.8% percentile) for all time with 6,083 births since 1923. For boys, it ranks #4,289 (6.4% percentile) for all time with 297 births since 1941.
Nicki first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1923 (1923 for girls and 1941 for boys). Birth data for Nicki is available in 88 out of the 100 years between 1923 and 2022 (88 years for girls and 40 years for boys). 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 Nicki has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nicki reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 24.4% percentile (ranked #562) with 118 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 118 births per million (ranked 24.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Nicki reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #649) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nicki".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Nicki. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Nicki is pronounced as NIH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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