# Nik (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nik/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 217 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 217 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 62, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 9 | 8,109 |
| 2006 | 9 | 8,541 |
| 2007 | 8 | 9,507 |
| 2008 | 9 | 8,807 |
| 2009 | 6 | 12,043 |
| 2011 | 7 | 10,451 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,649 |
| 2013 | 6 | 11,749 |
| 2015 | 8 | 9,321 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,470 |
| 2018 | 5 | 13,553 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,677 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,489 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,658 |
| 2025 | 7 | 10,381 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | 2,738 |
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 2,020 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Nik

- Nik Stauskas, Canadian basketball player (born 1993)
- Nik Wallenda, American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, and high wire artist
- Nik Caner-Medley, American basketball player
- Nik Dodani, American actor and comedian
- Nik Turner, English musician (1940–2022)
- Nik Schröter, German cyclist
- Nik Lentz, American martial artist

## 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.