Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Niki” in the USA?

Number of people named “Niki” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Niki” 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 “Niki” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Niki” by birth year

This chart shows how “Niki” 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
1932 7 0.000003316 7 100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 100%
1940 16 0.000006948 16 100%
1941 12 0.000004925 12 100%
1942 15 0.000005491 15 100%
1943 22 0.000007794 22 100%
1944 29 0.00001078 29 100%
1945 26 0.000009801 21 5 62%
1946 22 0.000006885 22 100%
1947 42 0.000011659 42 100%
1948 42 0.000012165 42 100%
1949 46 0.0000132 46 100%
1950 80 0.000022835 80 100%
1951 81 0.000021989 81 100%
1952 71 0.000018694 71 100%
1953 85 0.000022057 85 100%
1954 65 0.000016329 65 100%
1955 47 0.000011706 47 100%
1956 52 0.000012612 52 100%
1957 72 0.000017134 72 100%
1958 48 0.000011611 48 100%
1959 61 0.000014671 56 5 84%
1960 50 0.000012037 50 100%
1961 62 0.000014968 62 100%
1962 67 0.000016603 61 6 82%
1963 65 0.000016422 65 100%
1964 61 0.000015691 61 100%
1965 60 0.00001655 60 100%
1966 74 0.000021291 74 100%
1967 101 0.000029751 95 6 88%
1968 105 0.00003108 100 5 90%
1969 121 0.000034817 114 7 88%
1970 139 0.000038541 133 6 91%
1971 146 0.000042536 138 8 89%
1972 261 0.000083042 248 13 90%
1973 234 0.000077563 227 7 94%
1974 209 0.00006875 194 15 86%
1975 181 0.000059946 168 13 86%
1976 214 0.000070527 206 8 93%
1977 188 0.000059185 179 9 90%
1978 237 0.000074672 224 13 89%
1979 193 0.00005801 184 9 91%
1980 201 0.000058354 190 11 89%
1981 205 0.000059259 197 8 92%
1982 185 0.000052737 178 7 92%
1983 137 0.000039557 131 6 91%
1984 148 0.000042422 142 6 92%
1985 181 0.000050713 181 100%
1986 162 0.000045543 162 100%
1987 139 0.000038551 133 6 91%
1988 138 0.000037347 130 8 88%
1989 115 0.000029913 115 100%
1990 113 0.00002859 104 9 84%
1991 101 0.000025929 96 5 90%
1992 104 0.000027074 99 5 90%
1993 218 0.000057821 212 6 94%
1994 152 0.000040886 147 5 93%
1995 135 0.000036864 129 6 91%
1996 100 0.000027418 94 6 88%
1997 78 0.000021513 78 100%
1998 71 0.000019303 71 100%
1999 62 0.000016785 62 100%
2000 60 0.000015873 60 100%
2001 51 0.000013624 51 100%
2002 65 0.000017388 65 100%
2003 45 0.000011835 45 100%
2004 37 0.000009684 37 100%
2005 50 0.000013004 50 100%
2006 44 0.000011122 44 100%
2007 47 0.000011757 47 100%
2008 38 0.000009668 38 100%
2009 37 0.000009685 37 100%
2010 34 0.0000092 34 100%
2011 22 0.000006015 22 100%
2012 28 0.000007656 28 100%
2013 28 0.00000768 28 100%
2014 30 0.000008094 30 100%
2015 21 0.000005674 21 100%
2016 26 0.000007087 26 100%
2017 23 0.000006431 23 100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 100%
2019 24 0.000006915 24 100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 100%
2022 18 0.000005321 18 100%
2023 17 0.000005134 17 100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 100%

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