Nichelle
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1968 · 395 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,543since 1961
Nichelle over time
Rank among girls' names. Nichelle has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | — | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | — | |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | — | |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 | — | |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,360 | 35 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,265 | 34 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,646 | 40 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,689 | 39 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,461 | 39 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,379 | 66 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,593 | 57 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,244 | 63 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,624 | 97 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,656 | 92 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,410 | 116 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,259 | 136 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,284 | 132 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,030 | 181 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,071 | 169 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,110 | 157 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,085 | 155 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #1,230 | 121 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,093 | 139 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,194 | 118 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,002 | 152 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,059 | 132 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,169 | 112 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,138 | 123 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,368 | 90 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,053 | 135 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,323 | 94 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,069 | 124 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,199 | 102 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,273 | 87 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,026 | 117 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,089 | 107 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,028 | 114 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,038 | 112 | — | |
| 1971 | #836 | 164 | — | |
| 1970 | #726 | 205 | — | |
| 1969 | #540 | 331 | — | |
| 1968 | #486 | 395 | — | |
| 1967 | #500 | 361 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,022 | 33 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,402 | 14 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,825 | 20 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,668 | 21 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nichelle! It came in at #3,608, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2023–2025, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
See more about Nichelle
- 646 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #10,917)
- 1,964 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #10,917)
- 4,465 spots since 2015 (#6,452 → #10,917)
- Biggest jump: 1,522 spots in 1967 (#2,022 → #500)
- Biggest drop: 202 spots in 1972 (#836 → #1,038)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1968 at #486 (395 births)
- Births halved by 1971, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1967–1971
- Highest: 1 in 4,153 girls born in 1968 were named Nichelle (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.0% of all girls named Nichelle (1,277) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,197 | #486 (1968) | #2,288 |
| 1970s | 1,226 | #726 (1970) | #1,061 |
| 1980s | 1,277 | #1,002 (1985) | #1,139 |
| 1990s | 1,196 | #1,030 (1992) | #1,533 |
| 2000s | 423 | #2,379 (2001) | #3,647 |
| 2010s | 166 | #5,771 (2010) | #7,187 |
| 2020s | 58 | #7,281 (2022) | #10,196 |
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.
Nichelle in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 11,894 of them was named Nichelle, which outranked 92.5% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 400,186 of them was named Nichelle, which outranked 14.4% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,327 names at #7,905; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.