Nichele
Nichele was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 667 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nichele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nichele?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,790, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1969, the peak
Nichele peaked in 1969, when 45 girls were given it, #1,864 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #18,790 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,899 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,889 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,368 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,080 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,487 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,926 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,078 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,506 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,343 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 7 | #11,382 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,220 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,484 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,644 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,438 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,361 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,210 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,265 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,808 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,371 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,013 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,436 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,508 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,611 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,739 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,623 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,678 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,599 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,868 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,899 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,291 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,181 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,588 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,340 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,120 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 42 | #1,999 | 24.0 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,864 | 26.7 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,932 | 23.8 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,612 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,337 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,353 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nichele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nichele has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nichele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nichele, and how old are they?
An estimated 633 Americans named Nichele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 36 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 561 people named Nichele (560 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 643 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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).
How common is the spelling Nichele?
Nichele is a less common spelling of Nichelle: SSA has recorded 667 Nichele and 5,548 Nichelle since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 73,154 babies since 1880, Nichele is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 54 babies recorded by SSA was a Nichele (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nichele
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 Nichele and names like it
- Compare Nichele and NichelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sNichele peaked in 1969.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nichele since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Nichele.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nichele alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.