Nicole — #318 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nicole

The Social Security Administration has registered 593,691 babies named Nicole between 1937 and 2024, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nicole currently holds the #318 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 22,967 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nicole performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 210,498 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Nicole shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 75,444 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Nicole in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nicole 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 593,691 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.