Given name

Nickie

“of the victorious people”

Nickie is a variant of Nick. In English use, Nick carries the interpretation “of the victorious people.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

Nickie is a variant of Nick. In English use, Nick carries the interpretation “of the victorious people.”

Explained through its name family

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Nickie through the years

Babies since 1880
4,596
1,438 boys · 3,158 girls
Most popular year
1973
138 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
Boys Girls
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Nickie in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1914–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

Boys, girls and both

The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 31% boys.

Boys Girls
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Five-year rolling share of U.S. births. Blank stretches had too few births to read.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 111 in 1972. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,443 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Nickie’s family of names

Nickie has a related form in Nicole. Nickie has a related form in Nick. In English usage, Nickie has a related form in Nikki.

Walk Nickie’s family in the name graph

NickieNickyeNyckieNicoleNickNikkiNickyNickkyNickkieNikiNickiNikkyNikkie

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 6

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 4

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

See also 2

Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.

People named Nickie

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Nickie, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Maori · Shared

Nyree

“a yellow-haired woman”

25RareRising

35% boys · 65% girls

 

Corie

“from the hollow; of the churning waters”

23RareEasing

9% boys · 91% girls

Hebrew

Jodie

Jodie is a feminine given name from French.

32RareSteady

14% boys · 86% girls

Mythological

Corrie

“from the hollow; of the churning waters” · “referring to a horn”

29RareSteady

7% boys · 93% girls

English

Dionne

“of the sacred spring”

23RareRising

12% boys · 88% girls

Shared

Deni

“a follower of Dionysus” · “follower of Dionysus”

21RareRising fast

33% boys · 67% girls

Virtue

Nai

“his grace”

21RareSteady

10% boys · 90% girls

American · Shared

Happy

“a joyful woman” · “filled with joy”

21RareRising

45% boys · 55% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Nickie’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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