Nick
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish names
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nick is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 24th most common given name.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 802(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.1K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nick itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #692 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 621 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 802 (inferred from the name graph)
≈570,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nik in MY Malaysia, SI Slovenia and นิคม in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish names.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nick counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈570,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Nick | 73 |
| US United States | #344 | 115,412 | 1 in 2.9K | 114K | Nick | 621 |
| MY Malaysia | #24 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 313 | — | Nik | 133 |
| GB United Kingdom | #218 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 8 | Nick | 368 |
| TH Thailand | #423 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | #280,810 | นิคม | 95 |
| AU Australia | #163 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 802 | 3 | Nick | 318 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 8,113as Nika | 1 in 259 | 8.2K | Nik | 25 |
| HR Croatia | — | 5,134as Nika | 1 in 823 | 8.5K | — | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | #141 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Nick | 182 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nick is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from a pet form of the personal name Nikolaus (see Nicholas).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A small cut in a surface.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Nick är en engelsk kortform av → Nicholas. I Sverige är det även en kortform av → Niklas.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, element
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Short form of Nicholas. Variant: Nik.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nick Holonyakb. 1928USAmerican physicist (1928–2022)
- Nick Nolteb. 1941USAmerican actor (born 1941)
- Nick Parkb. 1958GBBritish animator and filmmaker (born 1958)
- Nick Griffinb. 1959GBBritish politician (born 1959)
- Nick Cleggb. 1967GBBritish politician and media executive (born 1967)
- Nick Heidfeldb. 1977DEGerman racing driver
- Nick Carterb. 1980USAmerican singer (born 1980)
- Afrojackb. 1987NLnot in their usual nameDutch electronic dance music producer and DJ (born 1987)
- Nicky Romerob. 1989NLnot in their usual nameDutch DJ, record producer and remixer
- Nick Robinsonb. 1995USAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 111 sources across 55 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 114K | #489 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #489 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 227 | #936 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 223 | #479 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 124 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 43 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 22 | #3,545 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nick mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish names. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Nick?
- In the etymology graph, Nicolas, Kay and Klaus are forms of the same name in other languages; Colin and Collin are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Nicholas and Nikolas.
- Is Nick a male or female name?
- Nick is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nick have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 565 thousand people named Nick in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nick.
- How common is the name Nick?
- In the United States, the national register counted 115,412 people named Nick in 2020, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Nick compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Nick is the 24th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Nick?
- A machine transcription gives /nɪk/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Nick?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nickThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nick” — the 24th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.