Nicholle
Nicholle was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 1,837 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,770 Americans named Nicholle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 33 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicholle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nicholle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,481, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
73 babies in 1994, the peak
Nicholle peaked in 1994, when 73 girls were given it, #1,939 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,481 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,792 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,044 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,555 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,794 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,915 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,622 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,144 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,288 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,422 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 16 | #7,114 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,603 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,536 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,100 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,268 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,895 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,917 | 24.1 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,740 | 25.7 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,766 | 25.0 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,939 | 40.9 |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,103 | 35.9 |
| 1992 | 52 | #2,474 | 28.2 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,603 | 25.1 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,217 | 30.5 |
| 1989 | 68 | #1,915 | 36.9 |
| 1988 | 59 | #2,022 | 33.1 |
| 1987 | 67 | #1,770 | 38.5 |
| 1986 | 54 | #2,014 | 31.5 |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,797 | 36.6 |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,761 | 36.8 |
| 1983 | 50 | #2,041 | 29.9 |
| 1982 | 54 | #1,959 | 31.9 |
| 1981 | 58 | #1,879 | 34.8 |
| 1980 | 64 | #1,743 | 38.5 |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,619 | 43.6 |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,702 | 40.5 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,845 | 35.9 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,200 | 26.6 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,975 | 30.9 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,051 | 27.9 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,562 | 41.1 |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,555 | 39.4 |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,201 | 22.2 |
| 1970 | 58 | #1,629 | 33.2 |
| 1969 | 40 | #1,994 | 23.7 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,027 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,522 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,648 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicholle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicholle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nicholle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicholle, and how old are they?
1,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,837 Americans ever recorded as Nicholle. The median Nicholle alive today is 41 years old; half are between 33 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,752 people named Nicholle (1,747 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,786 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 621 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 893 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 248 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Nicholle born?
The states with the most babies named Nicholle are California, New York and Michigan, with 70% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 232 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 82 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 38 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 14 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | 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 Nicholle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Nicholle?
Nicholle is a less common spelling of Nichole: SSA has recorded 1,837 Nicholle and 63,954 Nichole since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 73,154 babies since 1880, Nicholle is the third most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 54 babies recorded by SSA was a Nicholle (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 Nicholle
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 Nicholle and names like it
- Compare Nicholle and NicholeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNicholle peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicholle since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Nicholle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nicholle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.