Nik
given name · Latin script
Meaning: initialism of nomor induk kependudukan (“resident registration number”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/niʔ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nik 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.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 313(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 46K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 802as Nick
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 Nik 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 313 (inferred from the name graph)
≈570,000 named Nick, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nick in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more 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)
initialism of nomor induk kependudukan (“resident registration number”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nik 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 | 115,412as Nick | 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 |
| NL Netherlands | #60 | 379 | 1 in 46K | 19K | Nick | 179 |
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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); 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)
Nik 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.
Modern variant spelling of Nick.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, männl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Khmer, c lo s e together, compact. /nik—nik/ a, often, many tim es, repeatedly. mnmm /n4:ie-n00y/ a. very often, con tinuously. mnmiu
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
ISO 639-3 language code for Southern Nicobarese.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nmu, me, the first person singular accusative
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)
- 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 66 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 8 | #67,675 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Nik mean, and where does it come from?
- initialism of nomor induk kependudukan (“resident registration number”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Nik a male or female name?
- Nik 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.
- What are other forms of the name Nik?
- In the etymology graph, Nicolas, Kay and Nick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 565 thousand people named Nick in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Nik?
- A machine transcription gives /niʔ/ (IPA) for Malay.
- How common is the name Nik?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 379 people named Nik, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Nik compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Nik is the 24th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nikThe 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, “Nik” — the 24th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.