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 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#673 · 1 in 3,962
- California#721 · 1 in 4,996
- Arizona#741 · 1 in 4,643
- Michigan#758 · 1 in 4,463
- Washington#796 · 1 in 4,522
Best ever in a state: #279 in New Mexico, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #673 | 5 | 1 in 3,962 |
| California | #721 | 36 | 1 in 4,996 |
| Arizona | #741 | 7 | 1 in 4,643 |
| Michigan | #758 | 9 | 1 in 4,463 |
| Washington | #796 | 7 | 1 in 4,522 |
| Colorado | #801 | 5 | 1 in 4,963 |
| Illinois | #803 | 10 | 1 in 5,016 |
| Georgia | #908 | 9 | 1 in 5,599 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,104 | 6 | 1 in 8,670 |
| Texas | #1,115 | 19 | 1 in 9,337 |
| North Carolina | #1,121 | 6 | 1 in 8,454 |
| New York | #1,309 | 8 | 1 in 10,721 |
| Florida | #1,611 | 6 | 1 in 15,704 |
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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 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 8,817 of them was named Nikko, which outranked 92.3% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,094Denzel196
- #1,096Billy195
- #1,096Eleazar195
- #1,098Nikko194
- #1,098Bowie194
- #1,098Edmund194
- #1,098Marc194
- #1,103Josias193
- #1,103Lyam193
- #1,105Eydan192
Tied with 4 names at #1,098; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.