Nickens
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Apparently a patronymic from a pet form of Nick; the language of origin could be Dutch or English
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnɪkənz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nickens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 102K(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 34K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
3,246 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Apparently a patronymic from a pet form of Nick; the language of origin could be Dutch or English.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nickens 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,246 | 1 in 102K | 3.2K | Nickens | 258 |
| EG Egypt | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Nickens | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Nickens | 14 |
| IT Italy | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Nickens | 2 |
| PL Poland | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 314K | — | Nickens | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Nickens | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Nickens | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Nickens | 1 |
3,246 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Nickens is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite genitive singular of nick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Daryl G. Nickensb. 1949USscreenwriter
- Mark Nickensb. 1959UScollege basketball player (1981–1983) American
- Jared Nickensb. 1994USAmerican basketball player
- T. Edward NickensUSwriter and editor of North Carolina
- William NickensUS18th cent. US military drummer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #9,940 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,270 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Nickens mean, and where does it come from?
- Apparently a patronymic from a pet form of Nick; the language of origin could be Dutch or English. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nickens?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɪkənz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nickens have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Nickens, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nickens.
- How common is the name Nickens?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,246 people named Nickens in 2010, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nickensThe 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, “Nickens”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.