Nickson
#10,374 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nickson has been given to 299 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #10,374 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Nickson, 2025
1 in 474,000
Nickson over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nickson?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,374
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nickson sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nickson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nicksons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nickson was born before 2012 — so the typical Nickson is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 299
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (137).
Is Nickson rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −3,245
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,848
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,061
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.88×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 36.8%
- Peak was 2012 (19)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.3% average annual change
Spellings of Nickson
Nickson is not the most common spelling — Jackson is, with 99.3% against Nickson's 0.10%.
Where Nickson is used
Across 1910–2025, Nickson was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nickson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nickson around the world
Where Nickson ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2000–2000#3,036in 2000
- France1993–2002#4,477in 2002
- Canada2009–2015#2,414in 2015
- South Australia1997–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nickson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nickson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nickson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.