Niki
Niki reached its high-water mark in 1972 at number 626, and has been recorded 7,277 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 6,700 Nikis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Niki boys named Niki
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,277
- Estimated living today
- 6,700
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1972
- Best rank
- 626th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1932
- Girls / boys
- 7,048 / 229
How old the living Nikis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,277 babies given the name since 1932, about 6,700 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 410 of them are children and 740 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Nikis
- Niki Lauda (1949–2019)Austrian former Formula 1 driver
- Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002)plastician, painter and sculptor
- Niki Zimling (born 1985)Danish footballer
- Niki Terpstra (born 1984)Dutch cyclist
- Niki Karimi (born 1971)Iranian film director and actress
- Niki Caro (born 1967)New Zealand film director, film producer and screenwriter
- Niki (born 1999)Indonesian singer-songwriter based in the United States
- Niki Bakoyianni (born 1968)Greek high jumper
People named Niki with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Niki is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Niki is most concentrated in California (2.1×), Florida (1.8×), Louisiana (1.8×), Utah (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1972
The most popular girls’ names the year Niki peaked:
Niki elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Niki | 168 | 2,019th |
| Belgium girls | Niki | 120 | 666th |
| France girls | Niki | 105 | 3,245th |
| Switzerland girls | Niki | 55 | 788th |
| France boys | Niki | 55 | 4,623rd |
| Scotland boys | Niki | 43 | 215th |
| Scotland girls | Niki | 32 | 368th |
| England and Wales boys | Niki | 7 | 2,357th |
| Belgium boys | Niki | 6 | 908th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Niki: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Niki | 31 | 0.002% | 941st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Niki | 20 | 0.005% | 449th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Niki | 4 | 0.006% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Niki: rank by region
In 2007, Niki was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Niki | 560 | 9 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Niki among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Niki | 1,104 | 1,222 |
| Finland girls | Niki | 58 | 67 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Niki against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.