Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Nicky” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nicky” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nicky” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Nicky” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Nicky” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Nicky” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Nicky” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nicky” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1921 11 0.000004712 11 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 -100%
1924 15 0.000006298 6 9 -20%
1925 19 0.000008143 5 14 -47%
1926 19 0.000008276 19 -100%
1927 19 0.000008192 10 9 5%
1928 20 0.000008846 7 13 -30%
1929 19 0.000008667 19 -100%
1930 11 0.000004948 11 -100%
1931 23 0.00001093 23 -100%
1932 28 0.000013262 7 21 -50%
1933 21 0.000010503 21 -100%
1934 27 0.000013001 27 -100%
1935 21 0.000010048 21 -100%
1936 38 0.000018291 38 -100%
1937 33 0.000015488 6 27 -64%
1938 34 0.000015367 7 27 -59%
1939 47 0.00002133 47 -100%
1940 76 0.000033005 12 64 -68%
1941 72 0.000029551 8 64 -78%
1942 96 0.000035141 17 79 -65%
1943 121 0.000042869 18 103 -70%
1944 110 0.000040891 17 93 -69%
1945 93 0.000035056 14 79 -70%
1946 130 0.000040685 19 111 -71%
1947 135 0.000037476 16 119 -76%
1948 114 0.000033019 15 99 -74%
1949 135 0.00003874 12 123 -82%
1950 120 0.000034253 13 107 -78%
1951 164 0.00004452 18 146 -78%
1952 168 0.000044234 17 151 -80%
1953 170 0.000044114 16 154 -81%
1954 178 0.000044716 15 163 -83%
1955 142 0.000035367 21 121 -70%
1956 171 0.000041474 21 150 -75%
1957 184 0.000043787 28 156 -70%
1958 233 0.000056363 26 207 -78%
1959 294 0.000070707 10 284 -93%
1960 279 0.000067167 22 257 -84%
1961 240 0.000057939 20 220 -83%
1962 215 0.000053279 17 198 -84%
1963 209 0.000052802 18 191 -83%
1964 184 0.00004733 16 168 -83%
1965 185 0.000051028 20 165 -78%
1966 146 0.000042006 13 133 -82%
1967 181 0.000053315 29 152 -68%
1968 165 0.000048839 22 143 -73%
1969 163 0.000046902 24 139 -71%
1970 180 0.00004991 37 143 -59%
1971 188 0.000054773 45 143 -52%
1972 178 0.000056634 50 128 -44%
1973 203 0.000067288 53 150 -48%
1974 176 0.000057895 34 142 -61%
1975 165 0.000054647 38 127 -54%
1976 163 0.000053719 40 123 -51%
1977 156 0.000049111 29 127 -63%
1978 147 0.000046316 31 116 -58%
1979 143 0.000042982 48 95 -33%
1980 147 0.000042677 57 90 -22%
1981 103 0.000029774 29 74 -44%
1982 125 0.000035633 46 79 -26%
1983 95 0.00002743 38 57 -20%
1984 111 0.000031817 44 67 -21%
1985 100 0.000028018 39 61 -22%
1986 91 0.000025583 56 35 23%
1987 74 0.000020524 31 43 -16%
1988 71 0.000019215 27 44 -24%
1989 59 0.000015347 30 29 2%
1990 77 0.000019481 33 44 -14%
1991 81 0.000020794 27 54 -33%
1992 74 0.000019264 29 45 -22%
1993 80 0.000021219 26 54 -35%
1994 53 0.000014256 24 29 -9%
1995 58 0.000015838 23 35 -21%
1996 59 0.000016177 19 40 -36%
1997 49 0.000013514 20 29 -18%
1998 40 0.000010875 9 31 -55%
1999 43 0.000011641 14 29 -35%
2000 42 0.000011111 15 27 -29%
2001 30 0.000008014 6 24 -60%
2002 47 0.000012573 21 26 -11%
2003 36 0.000009468 13 23 -28%
2004 50 0.000013086 19 31 -24%
2005 50 0.000013004 21 29 -16%
2006 55 0.000013902 20 35 -27%
2007 49 0.000012257 21 28 -14%
2008 41 0.000010431 12 29 -41%
2009 38 0.000009947 17 21 -11%
2010 32 0.000008659 13 19 -19%
2011 16 0.000004374 9 7 13%
2012 31 0.000008476 18 13 16%
2013 43 0.000011795 33 10 53%
2014 41 0.000011062 26 15 27%
2015 22 0.000005944 11 11 0%
2016 28 0.000007632 12 16 -14%
2017 29 0.000008109 12 17 -17%
2018 18 0.00000512 5 13 -44%
2019 20 0.000005762 7 13 -30%
2020 25 0.000007484 12 13 -4%
2021 26 0.000007674 6 20 -54%
2022 28 0.000008276 13 15 -7%
2023 15 0.00000453 8 7 7%
2024 29 0.000008713 11 18 -24%

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