Nicky
About 9,442 American babies have been named Nicky since 1917, most of them around 1959. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 7,400 Nickys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nicky boys named Nicky
Girls and boys called Nicky
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,967 girls and 7,475 boys in all, and in 2024 the split was 11 to 18.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 86 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,442
- Estimated living today
- 7,400
- Median age today
- 54
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 471st
- Rank in 2025
- 8,910th
- First recorded
- 1917
- Girls / boys
- 1,967 / 7,475
How old the living Nickys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,442 babies given the name since 1917, about 7,400 are alive — 78 in every hundred. Roughly 490 of them are children and 2,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 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 Nickys
- Nicky Butt (born 1975)English footballer
- Nicky Hayden (1981–2017)American motorcycle racer
- Nicky Byrne (born 1978)Irish singer-songwriter, radio and TV presenter, dancer, and footballer
- Nicky Romero (born 1989)Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer
- Nicky Hilton (born 1983)American socialite
- Nicky Jam (born 1981)American singer
- Nicky Shorey (born 1981)English association football player
- Nicky Hopkins (1944–1994)English pianist and organist
People named Nicky with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nicky is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nicky is most concentrated in Tennessee (2.7×), Arkansas (2.4×), Oklahoma (2.4×), North Carolina (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular boys’ names the year Nicky peaked:
Nicky elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Nicky | 440 | 2,187th |
| England and Wales boys | Nicky | 369 | 493rd |
| Scotland boys | Nicky | 292 | 129th |
| Belgium girls | Nicky | 241 | 244th |
| France girls | Nicky | 125 | 2,726th |
| Belgium boys | Nicky | 106 | 381st |
| England and Wales girls | Nicky | 90 | 2,137th |
| Ireland boys | Nicky | 36 | 403rd |
| Scotland girls | Nicky | 13 | 511th |
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.
Nicky: rank by region
In 2009, Nicky was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Nicky | 747 | 6 |
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.
Nicky 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 | Nicky | 4,862 | 5,188 |
| the Netherlands girls | Nicky | 2,467 | 2,828 |
| Finland boys | Nicky | 85 | 95 |
| Finland girls | Nicky | 5 | 6 |
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.
Related names
Nicky against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.