Nik
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nik is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Malaysia it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: initialism of nomor induk kependudukan (“resident registration number”).
- MYMalaysia1 in 516◐
- NZNew Zealand1 in 1K
- AUAustralia1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈137K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 562 ●
- 1 in 259 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
1.7M records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Spellings & scripts●
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nick in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NL Netherlands and 18 more, นิคม in TH Thailand, Niku in IN India and ניק in IL Israel.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
initialism of nomor induk kependudukan (“resident registration number”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | #224 | 152,725 | 123K rec. | — | 3 | Nick | 280 |
| MY Malaysia | #23 | 126,054 | 111K rec. | — | — | Nik | 113 |
| US United States | #351 | 114,336 | 1.1M rec. | 1 in 2.9K | 114K | Nick | 562 |
| AU Australia | #216 | 103,250 | 94K rec. | — | 3 | Nick | 302 |
| TH Thailand | #428 | 54,877 | 35K rec. | — | #280,810 | นิคม | 95 |
| CA Canada | #253 | 51,768 | 46K rec. | — | 4 | Nick | 228 |
| DE Germany | #512 | 31,649 | 32K rec. | — | 3 | Nick | 212 |
| PH Philippines | — | 17,717 | 14K rec. | — | — | Nick | 102 |
| IN India | — | 14,520 | 7.1K rec. | — | 96 | Niku | 112 |
| NZ New Zealand | #81 | 8,221 | 4.9K rec. | — | — | Nick | 139 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 8,113△ | 68 rec. | 1 in 259 | 8.2K | Nik | 23 |
| RU Russia | — | 7,828 | 7.2K rec. | — | — | Nick | 127 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay83K31%
- English72K27%
- Indonesian35K13%
- Hungarian13K5%
- German6.4K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 82,781 | 31% |
| English | 72,264 | 27% |
| Indonesian | 35,395 | 13% |
| Hungarian | 12,546 | 5% |
| German | 6,372 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2023 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 34 years between 1964–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nick Holonyakb. 1928USnot in their usual nameAmerican physicist (1928–2022)
- Nick Nolteb. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1941)
- Nick Parkb. 1958GBnot in their usual nameBritish animator and filmmaker (born 1958)
- Nick Griffinb. 1959GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician (born 1959)
- Nick Cleggb. 1967GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician and media executive (born 1967)
- Nick Heidfeldb. 1977DEnot in their usual nameGerman racing driver
- Nick Carterb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican 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. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 64 sources across 35 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 404 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nik?
- We estimate roughly 137 thousand people bear Nik (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nik have the most bearers?
- Nik is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled nick.
- Where is Nik most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nik is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 259 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Nik compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Nik is the 224th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
- 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 does the name Nik mean?
- Recorded meaning: initialism of nomor induk kependudukan (“resident registration number”)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 224th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.