Nacole
Nacole was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 1,018 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nacole by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nacole?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,716, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
73 babies in 1979, the peak
Nacole peaked in 1979, when 73 girls were given it, #1,583 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,716 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,985 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,572 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,654 | 4.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,299 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,873 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,464 | 5.0 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,875 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,488 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,940 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 9 | #9,301 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,892 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,493 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,250 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,749 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,455 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,608 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,274 | 16.8 |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,007 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,254 | 26.8 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,304 | 25.6 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,551 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,946 | 31.7 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,844 | 34.8 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,726 | 39.6 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,824 | 36.1 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,583 | 45.5 |
| 1978 | 66 | #1,625 | 43.1 |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,113 | 29.4 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,199 | 26.6 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,044 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,395 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,808 | 17.1 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,383 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,577 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,627 | 16.0 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,417 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,810 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,210 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nacole a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nacole has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nacole: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nacole, and how old are they?
An estimated 974 Americans named Nacole and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 40 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 810 people named Nacole (806 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 986 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nacole
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nacole and names like it
- Compare Nacole and ShauntaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNacole peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nacole since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Nacole.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nacole alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.