girls:
40k births since 1925
#676 (88th percentile)
boys:
896 births since 1943
#3693 (19th percentile)
overall:
40.9k births since 1925
#1225 (84th percentile)
The name Nikki is the #1,225 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 40,912 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 84.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #676 (88.2% percentile) for all time with 40,016 births since 1925. For boys, it ranks #3,693 (19.4% percentile) for all time with 896 births since 1943.
Nikki first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for girls and 1943 for boys). Birth data for Nikki is available in 96 out of the 99 years between 1925 and 2023 (96 years for girls and 58 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 Nikki has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nikki reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 77.2% percentile (ranked #170) with 1,057 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 1,057 births per million (ranked 77.2% percentile). Despite a low point in 1984, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Nikki ranks #899 for girls (5.1% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Nikki reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #714) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 21 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nikki".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Nikki is pronounced as NIH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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