# Nic (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nic/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 77 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 77 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Clipping.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 7 | 3,569 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,463 |
| 1966 | 5 | 4,353 |
| 1971 | 8 | 3,856 |
| 1976 | 6 | 5,406 |
| 1977 | 10 | 3,769 |
| 1980 | 5 | 6,965 |
| 1998 | 5 | 10,810 |
| 1999 | 5 | 11,094 |
| 2003 | 5 | 12,191 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12,659 |
| 2007 | 6 | 11,931 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,476 |

## People named Nic

- Nicolas Cage, American actor (born 1964)
- Nic Pizzolatto, American writer
- Nic Fink, American swimmer
- Nic Balthazar, broadcast personality, film director (born 1964)
- Nic Dowd, American ice hockey player
- Nic Potter, British musician and painter (1951–2013)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.