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Vicki vs Vickii

American parents have registered 153,560 Vickis since 1880, against 139 Vickiis. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vicki against Vickii, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vicki Vickii

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Vicki has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1948, when Vicki had 4,373 and Vickii had 30.

Side by side

  Vicki Vickii
Total US births 153,560139
Most in one year 8,23630
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 123,000110
Median age today 6771
Peak year 19541948
Best rank 50th girls1,708th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19141948
Girls / boys 153,266 / 294139 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vickiis alive today are over 71; half the Vickis are over 67. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vicki and Vickii.