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 [ 2 syll. nic-ky, ni-cky ] The boy name Nicky is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is NIHKiy KEY. Nicky is largely used in the English language, and its origin is Latin and Old Greek. Nicky is an English pet form of the name Nicholas (English and French). Nicky is also a variant of the name Dominic (English). See also the related form, Nicki (German). Nicky is uncommon as a baby name for boys. At the modest height of its usage in 1959, 0.013% of baby boys were given the name Nicky. Its ranking then was #471. The baby name has since experienced a marked fall in popularity, and is now of irregular use. Within the group of boy names directly linked to Nicky, Nicholas (English and French) was the most popular in 2008. Nicky has in the past century been predominantly given to boys. Baby names that sound like Nicky include Nickey (English), Nicki (German), Nickie (English), Nikki (Dutch and English), Nacek (Polish), Nacho (Spanish), Nagi (Arabic), Naji (Arabic and Iranian), Nácek (Czech), Necho (Spanish), Nesho (Spanish), Newsy (English), Ngozi (Igbo), Niaz (Urdu), Nicho (Spanish), Nico (German and English), Nika (Russian), Niki (Polish, German, and Hungarian), Nikko (English), and Nikky (English). KEY: Pronunciation for Nicky: N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"   |
