girls:
2k births since 1924
#3856 (33rd percentile)
boys:
7.4k births since 1917
#1371 (70th percentile)
overall:
9.4k births since 1917
#2776 (64th percentile)
The name Nicky is the #2,776 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,406 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 64.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,371 (70.1% percentile) for all time with 7,448 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #3,856 (32.5% percentile) for all time with 1,958 births since 1924.
Nicky first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1924 for girls). Birth data for Nicky is available in 104 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (104 years for boys and 91 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 Nicky has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 46.7% of babies named Nicky were boys.
For boys, Nicky reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 35.6% percentile (ranked #422) with 131 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 131 births per million (ranked 35.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Nicky ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nicky reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #733) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 34 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Nicky ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 13.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nicky".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Nicky is pronounced as NIH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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