girls:
153.3k births since 1914
#256 (96th percentile)
boys:
294 births since 1942
#4292 (6th percentile)
overall:
153.5k births since 1914
#491 (94th percentile)
The name Vicki is the #491 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 153,548 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 93.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #256 (95.5% percentile) for all time with 153,254 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,292 (6.4% percentile) for all time with 294 births since 1942.
Vicki first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1942 for boys). Birth data for Vicki is available in 109 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (109 years for girls and 30 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 Vicki has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Vicki reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 93.5% percentile (ranked #51) with 3,862 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 4,129 births per million (ranked 93.2% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Vicki ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 0.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Vicki reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #642) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vicki".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Vicki. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.0% confident that Vicki is pronounced as VIH-kee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VEE-kee, at 11.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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