Nickola
Nickola was last recorded in 1981, when 6 babies were given it; 136 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nickola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nickola?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,977, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1972, the peak
Nickola peaked in 1972, when 11 girls were given it, #5,000 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #9,977 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,203 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,370 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,727 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,370 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,741 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,334 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,000 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,198 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,834 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 7 | #6,399 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,058 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,868 | 5.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,844 | 3.7 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,287 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,876 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,114 | 4.7 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,297 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,918 | 5.4 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,554 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nickola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 136 Americans recorded as Nickola, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nickola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nickola, and how old are they?
An estimated 113 Americans named Nickola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 50 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 342 people named Nickola (255 women and girls, 87 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 120 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 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).
How common is the spelling Nickola?
Nickola is a less common spelling of Nicola: SSA has recorded 136 Nickola and 8,090 Nicola since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 616,612 babies since 1880, Nickola is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 861 babies recorded by SSA was a Nickola (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.
More about Nickola and names like it
- Compare Nickola and NicolaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNickola peaked in 1972.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Nickola.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nickola alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.