Nicole
#382 for girls in 2025, 803 births · Last seen for boys in 2019 at #12,145
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1982 · 21,706 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 40 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 594,500since 1937
Nicole 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #382 | 803 | — | |
| 2024 | #318 | 964 | — | |
| 2023 | #326 | 942 | — | |
| 2022 | #323 | 996 | — | |
| 2021 | #341 | 955 | — | |
| 2020 | #266 | 1,163 | — | |
| 2019 | #229 | 1,365 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #217 | 1,429 | — | |
| 2017 | #184 | 1,664 | — | |
| 2016 | #162 | 1,954 | — | |
| 2015 | #154 | 2,116 | — | |
| 2014 | #128 | 2,540 | — | |
| 2013 | #91 | 3,352 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #114 | 2,661 | — | |
| 2011 | #117 | 2,655 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #123 | 2,570 | — | |
| 2009 | #119 | 2,770 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #106 | 3,291 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #86 | 3,873 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #74 | 4,322 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #56 | 4,993 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #43 | 5,741 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #40 | 6,238 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #37 | 6,974 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #36 | 7,820 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #31 | 8,563 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #25 | 9,515 | #3,480 | 22 |
| 1998 | #24 | 9,911 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #21 | 10,744 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #22 | 11,135 | #3,406 | 20 |
| 1995 | #19 | 12,277 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | #11 | 16,011 | #2,082 | 39 |
| 1993 | #13 | 16,183 | #2,007 | 40 |
| 1992 | #14 | 16,327 | #2,085 | 37 |
| 1991 | #15 | 16,046 | #2,227 | 32 |
| 1990 | #13 | 17,954 | #1,840 | 42 |
| 1989 | #12 | 19,032 | #985 | 107 |
| 1988 | #9 | 20,315 | #1,329 | 60 |
| 1987 | #8 | 20,286 | #1,096 | 77 |
| 1986 | #7 | 21,292 | #1,003 | 85 |
| 1985 | #7 | 22,966 | #1,050 | 77 |
| 1984 | #7 | 22,270 | #1,028 | 75 |
| 1983 | #7 | 22,400 | #949 | 86 |
| 1982 | #6 | 21,706 | #981 | 84 |
| 1981 | #7 | 20,310 | #976 | 85 |
| 1980 | #7 | 19,917 | #967 | 86 |
| 1979 | #9 | 19,510 | #1,044 | 71 |
| 1978 | #10 | 17,279 | #977 | 78 |
| 1977 | #15 | 15,247 | #998 | 74 |
| 1976 | #13 | 14,453 | #1,050 | 63 |
| 1975 | #10 | 14,275 | #1,042 | 63 |
| 1974 | #11 | 13,112 | #1,099 | 56 |
| 1973 | #11 | 13,922 | #1,054 | 59 |
| 1972 | #10 | 15,755 | #929 | 74 |
| 1971 | #27 | 10,423 | #1,181 | 48 |
| 1970 | #30 | 10,691 | #1,159 | 51 |
| 1969 | #47 | 7,212 | #1,440 | 31 |
| 1968 | #108 | 3,083 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | #122 | 2,776 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | #169 | 2,028 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #298 | 898 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | #330 | 831 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #381 | 655 | — | |
| 1962 | #407 | 565 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #614 | 273 | #4,065 | 5 |
| 1960 | #648 | 243 | — | |
| 1959 | #700 | 205 | — | |
| 1958 | #740 | 180 | — | |
| 1957 | #855 | 141 | — | |
| 1956 | #802 | 153 | — | |
| 1955 | #890 | 120 | — | |
| 1954 | #916 | 110 | — | |
| 1953 | #849 | 120 | — | |
| 1952 | #912 | 103 | — | |
| 1951 | #961 | 93 | — | |
| 1950 | #948 | 89 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,088 | 68 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,070 | 68 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,097 | 66 | — | |
| 1946 | #931 | 80 | — | |
| 1945 | #984 | 61 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,029 | 58 | — | |
| 1943 | #824 | 89 | — | |
| 1942 | #936 | 70 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,384 | 31 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,549 | 25 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,417 | 12 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,940 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nicole! It came in at #2,940, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1937–1938, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
See more about Nicole
- 64 spots since 2024 (#318 → #382)
- 116 spots since 2020 (#266 → #382)
- 228 spots since 2015 (#154 → #382)
- Biggest jump: 448 spots in 1942 (#1,384 → #936)
- Biggest drop: 205 spots in 1944 (#824 → #1,029)
- Debuted 1937
- Peaked 1982 at #6 (21,706 births)
- Births halved by 1997, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: 13 yrs · run 1978–1988
- Top 100: 40 yrs · run 1969–2007
- Top 1,000: 80 yrs · run 1950–2025
- Highest: 1 in 75 girls born in 1983 were named Nicole (1.3%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,002 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- Its best rank, #6 in 1982, was only 1 in 78 (1.3%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.4% of all girls named Nicole (210,494) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 28 | #2,417 (1939) | #2,936 |
| 1940s | 616 | #824 (1943) | #1,089 |
| 1950s | 1,314 | #700 (1959) | #857 |
| 1960s | 18,564 | #47 (1969) | #312 |
| 1970s | 144,667 | #9 (1979) | #15 |
| 1980s | 210,494 | #6 (1982) | #8 |
| 1990s | 136,103 | #11 (1994) | #18 |
| 2000s | 54,585 | #31 (2000) | #63 |
| 2010s | 22,306 | #91 (2013) | #152 |
| 2020s | 5,823 | #266 (2020) | #326 |
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.
Nicole in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 157 of them was named Nicole, which outranked 99.9% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 94,715 of them was named Nicole, which outranked 67.7% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,293Yasir21
- #3,293Yoni21
- #3,293Zakari21
- #3,406Nicole20
- #3,406Alim20
- #3,406Anastasios20
- #3,406Arick20
- #3,549Akhil19
- #3,549Alphonzo19
- #3,549Amber19
Tied with 142 names at #3,406; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.