Nicola — #7269 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Nicola

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,066 babies named Nicola between 1920 and 2024, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nicola currently holds the #7269 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 183 babies received it in a single year. Nicola is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,981 additional births since 1908.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nicola performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 1,320 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Nicola shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 647 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Nicola in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nicola in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,066 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.