Niki

Where Niki comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Niki.

  • Vowel-ended
Niki through the years
  1. 1930
    Niki de Saint Phalle born
    plastician, painter and sculptor
  2. 1932
    First appearance
    #3,568 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1972
    Peak, #626
    248 babies named Niki, the most in any year.
  4. 1985
    Niki Zimling born
    Danish footballer
  5. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,339.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name
  • A female given name.
  • A transliteration of the Greek female given name Νίκη (Níki).
  • A diminutive of the female given names Nicole, Nichole, Nicola, and Nichola
  • A male given name.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas
Namesakes
  • Niki de Saint Phalle · plastician, painter and sculptor, 1930–2002
  • Niki Zimling · Danish footballer, born 1985
  • Niki Terpstra · Dutch cyclist, born 1984
  • Niki Karimi · Iranian film director and actress, born 1971
  • Niki Caro · New Zealand film director, film producer and screenwriter, born 1967

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.