Niki
Niki is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 626th, in 1972.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1972248 births
- Best rank
- #626in 1972
- Since 1932
- 7,264people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,035 girls have been named Niki in the United States since 1932, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 248 births.
The name has all but left use: 10 births in 2024, against 248 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1970s alone account for 27%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 229 boys have also been given it, 3.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Niki | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 18 | |
| 1940s | 267 | |
| 1950s | 657 | |
| 1960s | 742 | |
| 1970s | 1,901 | |
| 1980s | 1,559 | |
| 1990s | 1,092 | |
| 2000s | 474 | |
| 2010s | 256 | |
| 2020s | 69 |
In 1972, its biggest year
Niki was the 626th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1972 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1972.
Names that rose and fell with Niki
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janelpeak 1971
- Nikkipeak 1972
- Meridithpeak 1971
- Stepheniepeak 1974
- Hollypeak 1983
- Christalpeak 1978
- Melainepeak 1980
- Demetriapeak 1974
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.