Nichola — unisex name

What the Data Says About Nichola

The Social Security Administration has registered 864 babies named Nichola between 1942 and 2010, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nichola currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1969, when 42 babies received it in a single year. Nichola is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 127 additional births since 1974.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nichola performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 276 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Nichola shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Nichola in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nichola in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 864 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.