Nick is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Nick is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1151 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,150 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 43,227 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Nick. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Nick annualy. This means that there have been boys named Nick who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Nick have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Nick even more than any other time: in 1918, it holds its present record at rank #168 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nick was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Nick has never been ranked higher than #168. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,264 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 134 boys named Nick were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Nick were born, there have been 226 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.0% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an N. This means that N as the first letter for boys' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Nick is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.0% of all boys’ names start with an N, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with N that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Nicholas.
If your name is Nick and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nick, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nick
Nick
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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C
K
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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C
K
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nick sounds like this:
