Nikole
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · girls
- 1972 · 213 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,982since 1962
Nikole over time
Rank among girls' names. Nikole has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 |
| 2022 | #5,638 | 22 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 |
| 2017 | #3,919 | 38 |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 |
| 2014 | #2,517 | 71 |
| 2013 | #1,990 | 98 |
| 2012 | #2,832 | 61 |
| 2011 | #2,664 | 66 |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 |
| 2009 | #2,614 | 70 |
| 2008 | #2,923 | 60 |
| 2007 | #2,509 | 74 |
| 2006 | #2,186 | 88 |
| 2005 | #1,983 | 96 |
| 2004 | #1,942 | 96 |
| 2003 | #1,915 | 95 |
| 2002 | #1,750 | 103 |
| 2001 | #1,468 | 128 |
| 2000 | #1,431 | 128 |
| 1999 | #1,341 | 132 |
| 1998 | #1,341 | 131 |
| 1997 | #1,096 | 171 |
| 1996 | #1,124 | 161 |
| 1995 | #1,080 | 165 |
| 1994 | #896 | 215 |
| 1993 | #832 | 237 |
| 1992 | #941 | 206 |
| 1991 | #913 | 211 |
| 1990 | #836 | 235 |
| 1989 | #919 | 196 |
| 1988 | #868 | 203 |
| 1987 | #787 | 224 |
| 1986 | #903 | 180 |
| 1985 | #874 | 183 |
| 1984 | #988 | 146 |
| 1983 | #890 | 170 |
| 1982 | #929 | 161 |
| 1981 | #948 | 155 |
| 1980 | #853 | 181 |
| 1979 | #897 | 166 |
| 1978 | #903 | 158 |
| 1977 | #913 | 155 |
| 1976 | #844 | 162 |
| 1975 | #849 | 157 |
| 1974 | #782 | 175 |
| 1973 | #815 | 161 |
| 1972 | #689 | 213 |
| 1971 | #1,021 | 121 |
| 1970 | #1,099 | 107 |
| 1969 | #1,148 | 94 |
| 1968 | #2,630 | 23 |
| 1967 | #3,085 | 17 |
| 1966 | #3,400 | 14 |
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| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Nikole! It came in at #6,578, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1965, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Nikole is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#411 · 1 in 2,316
- Minnesota#478 · 1 in 3,660
- Maryland#539 · 1 in 3,609
- Pennsylvania#545 · 1 in 4,329
- Arizona#585 · 1 in 3,381
Best ever in a state: #203 in Montana, 1976.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #411 | 6 | 1 in 2,316 |
| Minnesota | #478 | 7 | 1 in 3,660 |
| Maryland | #539 | 7 | 1 in 3,609 |
| Pennsylvania | #545 | 15 | 1 in 4,329 |
| Arizona | #585 | 8 | 1 in 3,381 |
| Washington | #631 | 7 | 1 in 4,128 |
| Michigan | #633 | 11 | 1 in 4,928 |
| Indiana | #675 | 6 | 1 in 5,463 |
| New York | #739 | 20 | 1 in 5,561 |
| Ohio | #761 | 9 | 1 in 7,186 |
| Florida | #785 | 12 | 1 in 6,210 |
| Illinois | #962 | 9 | 1 in 8,248 |
| California | #1,156 | 23 | 1 in 10,544 |
| Texas | #1,609 | 8 | 1 in 16,998 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nikole
- 317 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #6,325)
- 1,322 spots since 2020 (#5,003 → #6,325)
- 2,558 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #6,325)
- Biggest jump: 332 spots in 1972 (#1,021 → #689)
- Biggest drop: 184 spots in 1995 (#896 → #1,080)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1972 at #689 (213 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 30 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 23 yrs · run 1972–1994
- Highest: 1 in 7,142 girls born in 1972 were named Nikole (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.7% of all girls named Nikole (1,864) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 159 | #1,148 (1969) | #3,789 |
| 1970s | 1,575 | #689 (1972) | #881 |
| 1980s | 1,799 | #787 (1987) | #896 |
| 1990s | 1,864 | #832 (1993) | #1,040 |
| 2000s | 938 | #1,431 (2000) | #2,072 |
| 2010s | 532 | #1,990 (2013) | #3,437 |
| 2020s | 115 | #5,003 (2020) | #6,235 |
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.
Nikole in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 8,306 of them was named Nikole, which outranked 94.3% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).