Niki

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Niki: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Niki: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #1,979, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1979highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#2738
1998	#1979
1999	#2770
2000	#2416
2001	#3998
2002	#2868
2003	#2727
2004	#3725
2005	#2970
2006	#4157
2007	#3218
2008	#3397
2009	#2019
2010	#3533
2011	#5785
2012	#4838
2013	#3536
2014	#4003
2015	#2945
2016	#3609
2017	#2925
2018	#3178
2019	#4001
2020	#3899
2021	#3192
2022	#3533
2023	#3218
2024	#5891

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2350 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1979 among girls in England and Wales, in 1998 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Niki appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 168 births with the name.

Niki across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Niki's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#1979 (1998)	#5891 (2024)	29 of 29	168 (1996–2024)	12 (2009)
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#2357 (1996)	#2859 (1997)	2 of 2	7 (1996–1997)	4 (1996)

Niki by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Niki in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	24	4 of 10	6
2000sbusiest	58	10 of 10	6
2010s	58	10 of 10	6
2020s	28	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Niki appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1979 in England and Wales in 1998.

Niki's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2945	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1979	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,979, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 12 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#5,891position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
12births registered in its largest year, 2009Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Dilys · #1983, 24y
Binta · #1991, 26y
Yitty · #1991, 25y
Aishwarya · #1965, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Amarpreet · #1979, 11y
Dilpreet · #1979, 21y
Lady · #1979, 22y
Nabeelah · #1979, 19y

Niki and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Niki without appearing here.

Niki moved ahead of

Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3536 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3178 and #5666.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4001 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #5581.
Finlay Compare
In 2012 they stood at #5785 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #3536 and #5742.
Lene Compare
In 2006 they stood at #4157 and #4157 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #3218 and #5201.

Moved ahead of Niki

Blake Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2019 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #5785 and #2893.
Logan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #3598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #3015.
Shea Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #3015.
Luca Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #3598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #3318.

Moved the opposite way to Niki

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niki went from #2350 to #5891 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niki went from #2350 to #5891 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niki went from #2350 to #5891 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niki went from #2350 to #5891 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Niki

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niki went from #2350 to #5891 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niki went from #2350 to #5891 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niki went from #2350 to #5891 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Niki went from #2350 to #5891 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1979 in England and Wales in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Niki

Niki at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Niki across 2 official records

Niki by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Niki appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Niki across 2 official records

Niki by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Niki appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Niki and the names beside it

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