Nick
The boy's name Nick has been in the national records since 1880, with 50,589 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,443rd. About 27,000 Nicks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 50,589
- Estimated living today
- 27,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 242nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,443rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 132 / 50,457
How old the living Nicks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 50,589 babies given the name since 1880, about 27,000 are alive — 53 in every hundred. Roughly 2,800 of them are children and 7,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Nicks
- Nick Jonas (born 1992)American singer, actor and musician
- Nick Nolte (born 1941)American actor
- Nick Cave (born 1957)Australian musician and singer
- Nick Vujicic (born 1982)Australian evangelist and motivational speaker
- Nick Mason (born 1944)English drummer
- Nick Clegg (born 1967)British politician and media executive
- Nick Heidfeld (born 1977)German racing driver
- Nick Drake (1948–1974)British musician
People named Nick with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nick is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nick is most concentrated in Alaska (4.2×), New Mexico (2.5×), Illinois (1.9×), Ohio (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular boys’ names the year Nick peaked:
Nick elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Nick | 2,233 | 34th |
| Switzerland boys | Nick | 2,207 | 57th |
| England and Wales boys | Nick | 442 | 1,218th |
| France boys | Nick | 245 | 1,136th |
| Ireland boys | Nick | 45 | 313th |
| Poland boys | Nick | 22 birth registrations | 434th |
| Scotland boys | Nick | 16 | 549th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Nick: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Nick | 2,188 | 0.176% | 37th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Nick | 8 | 0.002% | 579th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Nick | 10 | 0.015% | 126th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Nick | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Nick is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.28% of children were given it – 575 of them.
Nick: rank by region
In 2023, Nick was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Nick | 879 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Nick by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 104 | 138th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Nick among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Nick | 19,450 | 20,843 |
| Finland boys | Nick | 99 | 108 |
| the Netherlands girls | Nick | — | 26 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Nick lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 237 men called Nick were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Nick | 15 | 0.036 | 1,602 |
| Lleida | Nick | 8 | 0.034 | 1,683 |
| Balears, Illes | Nick | 19 | 0.031 | 1,816 |
| Tarragona | Nick | 10 | 0.023 | 2,151 |
| Barcelona | Nick | 63 | 0.022 | 2,211 |
| Palmas, Las | Nick | 11 | 0.019 | 3,519 |
Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Nick against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.