Nichola
Nichola was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 991 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nichola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nichola mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nichola is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Nicola.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nichola?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,058, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 1969, the peak
Nichola peaked in 1969, when 42 girls were given it, #1,948 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #19,058 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,414 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,226 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,897 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,760 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,634 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,079 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,727 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,975 | 5 | #10,067 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,538 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 | #12,932 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 10 | #5,658 | |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,268 | 6 | #8,140 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,405 | 7 | #7,040 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,001 | 6 | #7,809 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,749 | 13 | #4,201 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,503 | 10 | #4,671 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,237 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,669 | 12 | #3,804 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,574 | 12 | #3,733 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,685 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,307 | 7 | #5,306 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,282 | 12 | #3,627 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,400 | 5 | #6,966 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,187 | 5 | #6,966 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,909 | 10 | #3,988 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,169 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,972 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,705 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,127 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,812 | 7 | #4,482 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,487 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,433 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,783 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,496 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,948 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,844 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,037 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,759 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,733 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,066 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,190 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,354 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,454 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,406 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,686 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,761 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,057 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,361 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,477 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,377 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,917 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,866 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,958 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,794 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,389 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,457 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,319 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,173 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,167 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Nichola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 991 Americans recorded as Nichola, 87% are girls and 13% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nichola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nichola, and how old are they?
An estimated 900 Americans named Nichola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 40 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,584 people named Nichola (1,216 women and girls, 368 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 927 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 67,449 babies since 1880, Nichola is the third most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 46 babies recorded by SSA was a Nichola (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 Nichola
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 Nichola and names like it
- Compare Nichola and NicholeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sNichola peaked in 1969.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nichola since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Nichola.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nichola alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.