Meaning and history
Short form of Nicholas, borne by the comic character Nick Bottom in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595).
20062006: 251 births, rank #812
2007: 227 births, rank #887
2008: 236 births, rank #890
2009: 197 births, rank #998
2010: 176 births, rank #1,092
20112011: 154 births, rank #1,159
2012: 157 births, rank #1,161
2013: 174 births, rank #1,075
2014: 157 births, rank #1,184
2015: 152 births, rank #1,210
20162016: 175 births, rank #1,116
2017: 147 births, rank #1,245
2018: 123 births, rank #1,418
2019: 141 births, rank #1,303
2020: 122 births, rank #1,415
20212021: 133 births, rank #1,378
2022: 137 births, rank #1,366
2023: 143 births, rank #1,328
2024: 130 births, rank #1,418
20252025: 124 births, rank #1,443
Nick moved from #887 to #891 for boys between 2007 and 2008. Its highest annual birth count came in 1960, with 1,098 births.