Entry № 7461 · English origin

Nikki Nikki — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NIK-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Victory of the people (Nikki Haley; Nikki Giovanni)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "victory of the people (nikki haley; nikki giovanni)".

Nikki is the English diminutive of Nicole — from the Greek Nikolaos, nikē (victory) + laos (people). Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe) is male. Nikki Bella — WWE professional wrestler.

Subject of countless 2024 campaign profiles.

Victory of the people.

The name in its native script.

Nikki
Transliteration
Nikki
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɪk.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nikki stands.

Nikki does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nikkis before her.

Real people
Nikki Haley
American politician; UN Ambassador.
born 1972
Nikki Giovanni
American poet.
1943 – 2024
In fiction
Nikki
Various American TV.

Names connected to Nikki.

The number behind Nikki.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nikki reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.