girls:
53.5k births since 1912
#552 (90th percentile)
boys:
440 births since 1941
#4146 (10th percentile)
overall:
53.9k births since 1912
#1027 (87th percentile)
The name Vicky is the #1,027 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 53,917 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 86.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #552 (90.4% percentile) for all time with 53,477 births since 1912. For boys, it ranks #4,146 (9.5% percentile) for all time with 440 births since 1941.
Vicky first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for girls and 1941 for boys). Birth data for Vicky is available in 109 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (109 years for girls and 37 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 Vicky has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Vicky reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 81.7% percentile (ranked #141) with 1,402 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 1,402 births per million (ranked 81.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Vicky ranks #919 for girls (3.0% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 1.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Vicky reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #620) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vicky".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Vicky", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 14 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Vicki" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Vicki..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Vicky. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Vicky is pronounced as VIH-kee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VEE-kee, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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