Feminine dossier · first seen 1925

Nikki

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Nikki
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 97.3% from peak

Peak era

1972

Peak rank proxy

1,704

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen X

1925Peak 19722024

Peak year

1972

Decline from peak

97.3%

2024

All-time

40,064

Nikki once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1972, when 1,704 girls were named Nikki.

In 2024, only 46 girls were given the name.

Down 97.3% from its peak.

All told, about 40,064 Americans have been named Nikki and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1925.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen X

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 97.3% from peak

19721,704 girls named Nikki

202446 girls named Nikki

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