Nikko
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #15,306 · #1,315 for boys in 2025, 147 births
Given to boys 96.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1991 · 148 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,526since 1972
Nikko over time
Rank among boys' names. Nikko has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,315 | 147 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,275 | 154 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,098 | 194 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,200 | 166 |
| 2021 | — | #1,016 | 216 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,177 | 163 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,287 | 144 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,168 | 164 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,332 | 135 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,279 | 142 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,198 | 154 |
| 2014 | — | #1,245 | 145 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,192 | 150 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,308 | 131 |
| 2011 | — | #1,484 | 109 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,462 | 112 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #1,604 | 99 |
| 2008 | — | #1,665 | 92 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,741 | 85 |
| 2006 | — | #1,808 | 76 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,280 | 121 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,075 | 57 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,885 | 62 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #1,589 | 77 |
| 2001 | — | #1,543 | 78 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,573 | 75 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,604 | 67 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,515 | 72 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #1,468 | 73 |
| 1996 | — | #1,278 | 86 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #1,151 | 99 |
| 1994 | — | #988 | 126 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,000 | 119 | |
| 1992 | — | #890 | 141 | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #862 | 148 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #898 | 131 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #916 | 123 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #1,341 | 59 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
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| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
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| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | — | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,714 | 16 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nikko! It came in at #4,986, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1982, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Nikko is popular in 1995
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#517 · 1 in 4,741
- Illinois#662 · 1 in 6,885
- New Jersey#680 · 1 in 8,257
- California#730 · 1 in 10,003
- Florida#1,101 · 1 in 16,981
Best ever in a state: #279 in New Mexico, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #517 | 7 | 1 in 4,741 |
| Illinois | #662 | 12 | 1 in 6,885 |
| New Jersey | #680 | 6 | 1 in 8,257 |
| California | #730 | 26 | 1 in 10,003 |
| Florida | #1,101 | 5 | 1 in 16,981 |
| Texas | #1,558 | 5 | 1 in 30,621 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nikko
- 40 spots since 2024 (#1,275 → #1,315)
- 138 spots since 2020 (#1,177 → #1,315)
- 117 spots since 2015 (#1,198 → #1,315)
- Biggest jump: 425 spots in 1989 (#1,341 → #916)
- Biggest drop: 163 spots in 1995 (#988 → #1,151)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1991 at #862 (148 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1989–1994
- Highest: 1 in 8,099 boys born in 2021 were named Nikko (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,620 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #862 in 1991, was only 1 in 13,651 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.6% of all boys named Nikko (1,386) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #4,986 (1972) | #4,986 |
| 1980s | 211 | #916 (1989) | #3,777 |
| 1990s | 1,062 | #862 (1991) | #1,165 |
| 2000s | 822 | #1,280 (2005) | #1,676 |
| 2010s | 1,386 | #1,168 (2018) | #1,296 |
| 2020s | 1,040 | #1,016 (2021) | #1,180 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nikko in 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 351,710 of them was named Nikko, which outranked 15.0% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,367 names at #13,386; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 19,229 of them was named Nikko, which outranked 88.9% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,144Jaylan100
- #1,144Mustafa100
- #1,144Nikhil100
- #1,151Nikko99
- #1,151Dalvin99
- #1,151Keandre99
- #1,151Layton99
- #1,159Arnulfo98
- #1,159Bennie98
- #1,159Dajuan98
Tied with 7 names at #1,151; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.