Nickole
Nickole was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 2,542 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,450 Americans named Nickole and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 31 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nickole by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nickole?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,998, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
104 babies in 1986, the peak
Nickole peaked in 1986, when 104 girls were given it, #1,296 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,998 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,996 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,838 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,183 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,650 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,278 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,591 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,915 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,398 | 18.8 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,210 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | #6,779 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,123 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,247 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,702 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,650 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,661 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,240 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,670 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,282 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,038 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,000 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,952 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,087 | 24.2 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,617 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,756 | 25.9 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,938 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,914 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,523 | 28.0 |
| 1993 | 60 | #2,206 | 33.2 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,417 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 61 | #2,175 | 32.5 |
| 1990 | 60 | #2,162 | 31.6 |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,180 | 30.4 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,656 | 44.4 |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,602 | 44.9 |
| 1986 | 104 | #1,296 | 60.6 |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,703 | 39.5 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,527 | 44.5 |
| 1983 | 79 | #1,468 | 47.3 |
| 1982 | 72 | #1,615 | 42.5 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,779 | 37.8 |
| 1980 | 86 | #1,431 | 51.8 |
| 1979 | 88 | #1,405 | 54.8 |
| 1978 | 97 | #1,272 | 63.3 |
| 1977 | 71 | #1,535 | 46.3 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,651 | 41.0 |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,509 | 46.6 |
| 1974 | 75 | #1,378 | 51.1 |
| 1973 | 86 | #1,228 | 59.0 |
| 1972 | 95 | #1,151 | 62.4 |
| 1971 | 71 | #1,461 | 42.7 |
| 1970 | 69 | #1,468 | 39.5 |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,123 | 21.3 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,937 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,523 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,304 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nickole a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nickole has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nickole: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nickole, and how old are they?
2,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,542 Americans ever recorded as Nickole. The median Nickole alive today is 40 years old; half are between 31 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 2,115 people named Nickole (2,104 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,460 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 869 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 461 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 109 |
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 Nickole born?
The states with the most babies named Nickole are California, Michigan and Ohio, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 290 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 143 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 118 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 57 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 41 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Nickole is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nickole is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1966 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Nickole 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 Nickole?
Nickole is a less common spelling of Nicole: SSA has recorded 2,542 Nickole and 596,465 Nicole since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 623,292 babies since 1880, Nickole is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 926 babies recorded by SSA was a Nickole (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 Nickole
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 Nickole and names like it
- Compare Nickole and NicoleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNickole peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nickole since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Nickole.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nickole alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.