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Nickey
How to Pronounce Nickey
Pronounced NIK-ee /ˈnɪki/Medium
Meaning: Nickey reads as a variant spelling of Nicky or Nikki, a pet form of Nicole; Nicole descends from the Greek Nikolaos, joining victory and people, so the name carries a sense of victory of the people.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Nickey rode the wave of Nicole. It appeared from the mid nineteen-thirties, gained ground with the parent's late-century boom, and reached its modest high in 1985.
The spelling stayed rare, given to only a couple dozen girls a year at most, and had faded by the mid nineteen-nineties. A woman named Nickey at that peak would be about forty today, most often written Nikki now.
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What does the name Nickey mean?
It is a respelling of Nicky or Nikki, a short form of Nicole, from the Greek for victory of the people.
How do you pronounce Nickey?
It is said NIK-ee /ˈnɪki/, two syllables with the stress on the first.
Is Nickey a boy or girl name?
Nickey is recorded here as a girl's name, a short form of Nicole.
How popular is Nickey?
It was always rare, given to only a couple dozen girls a year even at its peak in the mid nineteen-eighties.