girls:
3.2k births since 1917
#3087 (46th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1914
#3205 (30th percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1914
#4032 (48th percentile)
The name Nickie is the #4,032 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,596 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 47.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,087 (46.0% percentile) for all time with 3,158 births since 1917. For boys, it ranks #3,205 (30.1% percentile) for all time with 1,438 births since 1914.
Nickie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1917 for girls). Birth data for Nickie is available in 94 out of the 103 years between 1914 and 2016 (85 years for girls and 79 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 Nickie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (68.7% of all recorded births). In 2016, 100.0% of babies named Nickie were girls. Interestingly, until around 1946, the name was more popular for boys (60.0% boys from 1914 to 1945), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (73.6% girls from 1946 to 2016).
For girls, Nickie reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 14.3% percentile (ranked #637) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 69 births per million (ranked 14.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
For boys, Nickie reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 6.3% percentile (ranked #577) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1943, with 27 births per million (ranked 6.0% 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 "Nickie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Nickie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Nickie is pronounced as NIH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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