Nikola
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #1,644 for boys in 2025, 102 births
Given to boys 84.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 151 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,444since 1960
Nikola over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. 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 | #11,932 | 7 | #1,644 | 102 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #1,589 | 108 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #1,440 | 126 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #1,447 | 125 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #1,291 | 147 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #1,237 | 151 |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 | #1,340 | 134 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #1,244 | 148 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #1,348 | 132 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 | #1,349 | 132 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #1,271 | 141 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #1,402 | 120 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #1,483 | 110 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #1,551 | 102 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | #1,587 | 97 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #1,806 | 81 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #1,825 | 81 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #1,719 | 88 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #2,094 | 65 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #1,893 | 71 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #2,035 | 61 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #1,731 | 73 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #2,077 | 54 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #1,888 | 59 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,572 | 76 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #1,742 | 64 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #1,778 | 56 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #2,068 | 45 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #2,228 | 38 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 | #2,073 | 41 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,055 | 40 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #1,753 | 50 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #1,824 | 46 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #2,670 | 26 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #2,416 | 27 |
| 1988 | — | #2,765 | 20 | |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | #3,072 | 16 |
| 1986 | — | #3,653 | 12 | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #2,357 | 22 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #2,706 | 17 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | #2,059 | 26 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #2,496 | 19 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #2,444 | 20 |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 | #2,465 | 19 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | #2,279 | 20 |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 | #2,361 | 19 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 | #2,361 | 18 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #3,342 | 19 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 | #2,534 | 14 |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | #3,577 | 17 | #2,739 | 12 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | #3,314 | 8 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | #2,784 | 9 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #3,282 | 7 |
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| 1962 | — | #2,364 | 12 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nikola! It came in at #4,038, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Nikola
- 55 spots since 2024 (#1,589 → #1,644)
- 407 spots since 2020 (#1,237 → #1,644)
- 373 spots since 2015 (#1,271 → #1,644)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 2020 at #1,237 (151 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,431 boys born in 2020 were named Nikola (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,746 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 34.8% of all boys named Nikola (1,197) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1975, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 54 | #2,364 (1962) | #3,259 |
| 1970s | 145 | #2,279 (1978) | #2,779 |
| 1980s | 192 | #2,059 (1982) | #2,720 |
| 1990s | 405 | #1,753 (1994) | #2,098 |
| 2000s | 692 | #1,572 (2001) | #1,858 |
| 2010s | 1,197 | #1,244 (2018) | #1,438 |
| 2020s | 759 | #1,237 (2020) | #1,441 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nikola in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 93,243 of them was named Nikola, which outranked 64.4% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,176Zanovia19
- #6,176Zenaya19
- #6,176Zosia19
- #6,414Nikola18
- #6,414Aalaya18
- #6,414Aaliah18
- #6,414Aaminah18
- #6,698Aaleah17
- #6,698Aamira17
- #6,698Aanaya17
Tied with 283 names at #6,414; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 13,390 of them was named Nikola, which outranked 90.5% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,337Aryeh135
- #1,337Kennedy135
- #1,337Leeland135
- #1,340Nikola134
- #1,340Alton134
- #1,340Dov134
- #1,340Kartier134
- #1,347Aston133
- #1,347Darryl133
- #1,347Jael133
Tied with 6 names at #1,340; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.