Nikos
- #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · boys
- 1969 · 16 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 882since 1962
Nikos over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Nikos has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #5,215 | 18 |
| 2021 | #4,780 | 20 |
| 2020 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #4,356 | 22 |
| 2010 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #3,636 | 25 |
| 2003 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #3,597 | 20 |
| 1997 | #3,261 | 22 |
| 1996 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #3,107 | 14 |
| 1983 | #2,577 | 18 |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #4,068 | 9 |
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| 1977 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #3,071 | 10 |
| 1969 | #2,130 | 16 |
| 1968 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #3,249 | 7 |
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| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
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First appearance
1962
The first year at least five boys were named Nikos! It came in at #4,033, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1965, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Nikos is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Nikos in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 899 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #6,803)
- 507 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #6,803)
- 2,396 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #6,803)
Rise & fade · boys
7 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1969 at #2,130 (16 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 70,842
- Highest: 1 in 70,842 boys born in 2009 were named Nikos (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 142,340 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,130 in 1969, was only 1 in 111,761 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 22.1% of all boys named Nikos (195) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 41 | #2,130 (1969) | #3,297 |
| 1970s | 91 | #2,751 (1975) | #3,451 |
| 1980s | 128 | #2,577 (1983) | #3,616 |
| 1990s | 152 | #3,261 (1997) | #4,262 |
| 2000s | 195 | #3,636 (2004) | #4,629 |
| 2010s | 186 | #4,356 (2011) | #5,010 |
| 2020s | 89 | #4,780 (2021) | #6,048 |
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.
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