first name
NIKKI
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 43,487 people named Nikki, 68.5% reported their origin as White, 12.8% as Black and 6.6% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 98.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Nikki peaked in 1972, when 1,736 babies got the name.
At least 41,005 babies have been given the name since 1925. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Nikki by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #447. The largest share of babies named Nikki, 38.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Nikki is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nikki has been most common in Hawaii (1.8×), Idaho (1.8×), and Oklahoma (1.7×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.53×).
36,426 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nikki, most common first.
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