Given name & surname
Nike
“one who brings victory”
Nike is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “one who brings victory.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “one who brings victory.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
In mythological stories, Nike is associated with the goddess of victory.
Nike through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 314
- 164 boys · 150 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +111%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 669 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.
Nike’s family of names
Nike has a related form in Nikko. In Italian usage, Nike has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form NICE. Nike has a related form in Nikee.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
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 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Nike
- Nike ArdillaIndonesian singer, actress, and model (1975-1995)
- Nike Davies-OkundayeNigerian batik and textile designerborn 1951
- Nike AkandeNigerian economist, industrialistborn 1944
- Nike OshinowoNigerian beauty pageant contestantborn 1966
- Nike LorenzGerman field hockey player (1997-)
- Niké ArrighiFrench actress1944–2025
- Nike BentSwedish alpine skierborn 1981
- Nike WagnerGerman dramaturge, arts administrator and authorborn 1945
- Nike FuhrmannGerman actressborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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