Nicholette
Nicholette was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,443 among girls’ names; 1,297 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Nicholette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 29 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicholette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nicholette?
#14,443 among girls’ names, 2025
Nicholette rose from #18,383 in 2015 to #14,443 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.7 per million.
74 babies in 1993, the peak
Nicholette peaked in 1993, when 74 girls were given it, #1,911 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,443 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,996 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,899 | 5.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,760 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,081 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,111 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,383 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,480 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,071 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,043 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 | #11,022 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,261 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,318 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,317 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,769 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,215 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,116 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,050 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,720 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,236 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,144 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,588 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,590 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,082 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,415 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,465 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,687 | 25.8 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,911 | 40.9 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,257 | 32.0 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,531 | 26.1 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,186 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,020 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,652 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,701 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,103 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,305 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,552 | 22.0 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,760 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,982 | 31.3 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,434 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 54 | #1,973 | 32.5 |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,611 | 21.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,888 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,137 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,837 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,377 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,903 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,706 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,732 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,975 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,943 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,492 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,527 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,144 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,159 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,327 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,723 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,547 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,416 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,865 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,621 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,058 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,191 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,895 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,333 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,918 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,633 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,124 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,512 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicholette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicholette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nicholette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicholette, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,297 Americans ever recorded as Nicholette. The median Nicholette alive today is 35 years old; half are between 29 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,082 people named Nicholette (1,080 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,227 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 97 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 199 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 596 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 296 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 46 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nicholette born?
The states with the most babies named Nicholette are California, Texas and Ohio, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 106 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nicholette with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nicholette
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 Nicholette and names like it
- Compare Nicholette and KrystynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNicholette peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicholette since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Nicholette.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nicholette alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.