Nicki

Where Nicki comes from

Clipping + -i (diminutive suffix).
— Wiktionary's entry for Nicki
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1923
    First appearance
    #4,376 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Peak, #734
    190 babies named Nicki — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1975
    Nicki Aycox born
    American actress
  4. 1979
    Nicki Hunter born
    American pornographic actress and director
  5. 1988
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,477.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Nicola and Nicole.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.
Namesakes
  • Nicki Aycox · American actress, 1975–2022
  • Nicki Hunter · American pornographic actress and director, born 1979
  • Nicki Bille Nielsen · Danish footballer, born 1988
  • Nicki Sørensen · Danish cyclist, born 1975, born 1975
  • Nicki Clyne · Canadian actress, born 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.