Nicky
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #8,946 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to boys 79.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1959 · 284 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,475since 1917
Nicky over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #5,297 | 17 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 | #5,733 | 15 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #3,646 | 29 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | #3,687 | 28 |
| 2006 | #6,356 | 20 | #3,083 | 35 |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | #3,158 | 31 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | #3,732 | 23 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #3,349 | 26 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #2,651 | 31 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | #2,680 | 29 |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | #2,115 | 40 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #2,253 | 35 |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1993 | #3,987 | 26 | #1,638 | 54 |
| 1992 | #3,680 | 29 | #1,820 | 45 |
| 1991 | #3,817 | 27 | #1,573 | 54 |
| 1990 | #3,297 | 33 | #1,780 | 44 |
| 1989 | #3,402 | 30 | #2,292 | 29 |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | #1,618 | 44 |
| 1987 | #3,031 | 31 | #1,612 | 43 |
| 1986 | #1,952 | 56 | #1,760 | 35 |
| 1985 | #2,484 | 39 | #1,214 | 61 |
| 1984 | #2,227 | 44 | #1,096 | 67 |
| 1983 | #2,433 | 38 | #1,205 | 57 |
| 1982 | #2,185 | 46 | #1,019 | 79 |
| 1981 | #2,986 | 29 | #1,062 | 74 |
| 1980 | #1,886 | 57 | #945 | 90 |
| 1979 | #2,112 | 47 | #895 | 95 |
| 1978 | #2,741 | 30 | #786 | 116 |
| 1977 | #2,780 | 29 | #758 | 127 |
| 1976 | #2,135 | 40 | #748 | 123 |
| 1975 | #2,196 | 38 | #736 | 127 |
| 1974 | #2,290 | 34 | #686 | 142 |
| 1973 | #1,690 | 53 | #648 | 150 |
| 1972 | #1,749 | 50 | #707 | 128 |
| 1971 | #1,906 | 45 | #692 | 143 |
| 1970 | #2,160 | 37 | #692 | 143 |
| 1969 | #2,704 | 24 | #670 | 139 |
| 1968 | #2,708 | 22 | #634 | 143 |
| 1967 | #2,212 | 29 | #608 | 152 |
| 1966 | #3,558 | 13 | #642 | 133 |
| 1965 | #2,744 | 20 | #593 | 165 |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 | #606 | 168 |
| 1963 | #2,960 | 18 | #569 | 191 |
| 1962 | #3,033 | 17 | #561 | 198 |
| 1961 | #2,752 | 20 | #537 | 220 |
| 1960 | #2,573 | 22 | #493 | 257 |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 | #471 | 284 |
| 1958 | #2,209 | 26 | #534 | 207 |
| 1957 | #2,067 | 28 | #615 | 156 |
| 1956 | #2,453 | 21 | #622 | 150 |
| 1955 | #2,411 | 21 | #663 | 121 |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 | #578 | 163 |
| 1953 | #2,699 | 16 | #579 | 154 |
| 1952 | #2,581 | 17 | #568 | 151 |
| 1951 | #2,391 | 18 | #566 | 146 |
| 1950 | #2,909 | 13 | #672 | 107 |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 | #613 | 123 |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 | #678 | 99 |
| 1947 | #2,530 | 16 | #631 | 119 |
| 1946 | #2,153 | 19 | #611 | 111 |
| 1945 | #2,339 | 14 | #676 | 79 |
| 1944 | #2,096 | 17 | #639 | 93 |
| 1943 | #2,079 | 18 | #623 | 103 |
| 1942 | #2,117 | 17 | #722 | 79 |
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 | #778 | 64 |
| 1940 | #2,424 | 12 | #770 | 64 |
| 1939 | — | #904 | 47 | |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | #1,275 | 27 |
| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 | #1,288 | 27 |
| 1936 | — | #1,028 | 38 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,494 | 21 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,293 | 27 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,498 | 21 | |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 | #1,548 | 21 |
| 1931 | — | #1,458 | 23 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,444 | 11 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,731 | 19 | |
| 1928 | #3,743 | 7 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1927 | #3,053 | 10 | #2,912 | 9 |
| 1926 | — | #1,787 | 19 | |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | #2,193 | 14 |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | #3,023 | 9 |
| 1923 | — | #2,224 | 14 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,632 | 11 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1917
The first year at least five boys were named Nicky! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 3,669 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #8,910)
- 2,614 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #8,910)
- 1,844 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #8,910)
- Biggest jump: 371 spots in 1939 (#1,275 → #904)
- Biggest drop: 117 spots in 1981 (#945 → #1,062)
Rise & fade · boys
42 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1959 at #471 (284 births)
- Births halved by 1966, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 42 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 42 yrs · run 1939–1980
Share of babies · boys
1 in 7,516
- Highest: 1 in 7,516 boys born in 1959 were named Nicky (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1960s
- 23.6% of all boys named Nicky (1,766) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 116 | #1,731 (1929) | #2,447 |
| 1930s | 263 | #904 (1939) | #1,423 |
| 1940s | 934 | #611 (1946) | #674 |
| 1950s | 1,639 | #471 (1959) | #587 |
| 1960s | 1,766 | #493 (1960) | #591 |
| 1970s | 1,294 | #648 (1973) | #735 |
| 1980s | 579 | #945 (1980) | #1,382 |
| 1990s | 390 | #1,573 (1991) | #2,193 |
| 2000s | 273 | #3,083 (2006) | #3,529 |
| 2010s | 134 | #4,848 (2010) | #6,469 |
| 2020s | 82 | #4,628 (2021) | #6,785 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nicky in 1917
boys
#3,981
5 births · 1 in 185,096 boys
Top boys' names in 1917
More about 1917
boys
925,482 boys got a published name in 1917; 1 in 185,096 of them was named Nicky, which outranked 13.5% of the 4,602 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Ranked beside Nicky
Tied with 621 names at #3,981; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Biggest movers since 1916
Risers
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.