Nichole
#3,342 for girls in 2025, 46 births · Last seen for boys in 1998 at #9,631
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 2,926 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 4 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 63,770since 1942
Nichole over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,342 | 46 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 47 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,329 | 48 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,470 | 45 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,751 | 62 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,061 | 52 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,428 | 73 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,508 | 70 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,989 | 99 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,775 | 117 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,823 | 114 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,547 | 141 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,273 | 186 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,413 | 162 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,392 | 164 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,342 | 175 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,366 | 174 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,084 | 241 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,102 | 235 | — | |
| 2006 | #956 | 273 | — | |
| 2005 | #893 | 282 | — | |
| 2004 | #768 | 337 | — | |
| 2003 | #748 | 336 | — | |
| 2002 | #647 | 390 | — | |
| 2001 | #556 | 470 | — | |
| 2000 | #495 | 545 | — | |
| 1999 | #448 | 596 | — | |
| 1998 | #427 | 620 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #377 | 714 | — | |
| 1996 | #354 | 783 | — | |
| 1995 | #295 | 937 | — | |
| 1994 | #223 | 1,260 | — | |
| 1993 | #209 | 1,394 | — | |
| 1992 | #192 | 1,581 | — | |
| 1991 | #180 | 1,652 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #151 | 1,992 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #136 | 2,233 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #114 | 2,497 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #111 | 2,538 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #105 | 2,652 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #95 | 2,950 | #3,599 | 12 |
| 1984 | #97 | 2,806 | #3,107 | 14 |
| 1983 | #93 | 2,926 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #99 | 2,923 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #109 | 2,772 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #102 | 2,938 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | #103 | 2,908 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | #116 | 2,511 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #142 | 2,064 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #148 | 1,768 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #153 | 1,764 | — | |
| 1974 | #161 | 1,687 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #160 | 1,718 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | #146 | 1,943 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1971 | #262 | 1,114 | — | |
| 1970 | #283 | 1,042 | — | |
| 1969 | #314 | 815 | — | |
| 1968 | #694 | 195 | — | |
| 1967 | #820 | 148 | — | |
| 1966 | #860 | 135 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,829 | 39 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,610 | 50 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,787 | 42 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,073 | 32 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,318 | 15 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,212 | 15 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 12 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
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| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 | — | |
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| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nichole! It came in at #2,817, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Nichole is popular in 1942
No state had 5 or more girls named Nichole in 1942, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Nichole
- 7 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #3,342)
- 281 spots since 2020 (#3,061 → #3,342)
- 1,519 spots since 2015 (#1,823 → #3,342)
- Biggest jump: 969 spots in 1966 (#1,829 → #860)
- Biggest drop: 146 spots in 2007 (#956 → #1,102)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1983 at #93 (2,926 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 4 yrs · run 1982–1985
- Top 1,000: 41 yrs · run 1966–2006
- Highest: 1 in 552 girls born in 1979 were named Nichole (0.18%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,941 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #93 in 1983, was only 1 in 571 (0.18%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.7% of all girls named Nichole (27,235) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 59 | #2,817 (1942) | #3,612 |
| 1950s | 58 | #3,619 (1959) | #4,394 |
| 1960s | 1,486 | #314 (1969) | #1,652 |
| 1970s | 18,519 | #103 (1979) | #167 |
| 1980s | 27,235 | #93 (1983) | #106 |
| 1990s | 11,529 | #151 (1990) | #286 |
| 2000s | 3,283 | #495 (2000) | #862 |
| 2010s | 1,301 | #1,273 (2013) | #1,749 |
| 2020s | 300 | #2,751 (2021) | #3,215 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nichole in 1942
Top girls' names in 1942
More about 1942
girls
1,350,719 girls got a published name in 1942; 1 in 122,793 of them was named Nichole, which outranked 47.6% of the 5,378 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,666Willow12
- #2,666Wilmer12
- #2,666Yetta12
- #2,817Nichole11
- #2,817Adah11
- #2,817Adaline11
- #2,817Adelfa11
- #2,986Adelita10
- #2,986Adra10
- #2,986Adrianna10
Tied with 168 names at #2,817; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.