Nicholes
Nicholes was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 879 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicholes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nicholes?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,478, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1989, the peak
Nicholes peaked in 1989, when 40 boys were given it, #1,880 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #13,478 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,436 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,948 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,786 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,974 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,832 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,324 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,767 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,368 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,927 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 21 | #4,000 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,314 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,602 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,551 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,991 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 39 | #2,217 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,651 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,081 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,540 | 15.5 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,842 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,966 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,515 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,291 | 15.1 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,880 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,412 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,095 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,202 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,952 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 28 | #1,959 | 15.5 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,190 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,393 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 33 | #1,752 | 18.4 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,097 | 14.6 |
| 1979 | 35 | #1,658 | 20.3 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,632 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,546 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,041 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,053 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,636 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,800 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,752 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,269 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,430 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,342 | 2.4 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,579 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicholes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicholes has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nicholes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicholes, and how old are they?
An estimated 835 Americans named Nicholes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 27 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 935 people named Nicholes (13 women and girls, 922 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 848 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 936,846 babies since 1880, Nicholes is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,128 babies recorded by SSA was a Nicholes (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 Nicholes
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 Nicholes and names like it
- Compare Nicholes and NicholasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNicholes peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicholes since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Nicholes.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nicholes alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.