Nicoletta
Nicoletta was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,953 among girls’ names; 2,023 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Nicoletta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 17 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicoletta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nicoletta mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Nicoletta is “a female given name, feminine diminutive form of Nicola ( Nicholas)”
/ni.koˈlet.ta/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nicoletta?
#4,953 among girls’ names, 2025
Nicoletta fell from #4,471 in 2015 to #4,953 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 16.8 per million.
46 babies in 2000, the peak
Nicoletta peaked in 2000, when 46 girls were given it, #3,051 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,953 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,913 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,681 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,911 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,691 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,126 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,029 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,710 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,221 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,269 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,471 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,146 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,849 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,057 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,780 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,938 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,051 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,917 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,058 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,859 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,923 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,671 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,175 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,583 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,790 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,051 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,481 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,457 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,343 | 20.1 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,416 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,844 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,971 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,606 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,645 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,439 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,041 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,468 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,236 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,834 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,670 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,258 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,832 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,557 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,499 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,486 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,204 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,035 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,115 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,769 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,468 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,838 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,242 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,517 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,707 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,200 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,682 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,566 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,720 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,869 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,649 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,419 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,887 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,963 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,460 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,942 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,378 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,953 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,252 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,624 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,089 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,060 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,891 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,896 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,149 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,663 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,366 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,334 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,308 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,020 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,164 | 7.0 |
| 1944 | 19 | #2,009 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,657 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,382 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,163 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 17 | #2,015 | 14.9 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,540 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,307 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,417 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,481 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,686 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,529 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,821 | 18.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,785 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,852 | 17.8 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,855 | 17.8 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,693 | 20.6 |
| 1928 | 19 | #2,001 | 16.5 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,923 | 17.6 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,701 | 21.1 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,780 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,432 | 27.2 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,342 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,824 | 19.2 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,906 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,653 | 21.7 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,593 | 23.0 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,674 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,974 | 16.6 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,336 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,650 | 11.2 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,092 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,486 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,087 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,749 | 21.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicoletta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicoletta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nicoletta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicoletta, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 71% of the 2,023 Americans ever recorded as Nicoletta. The median Nicoletta alive today is 28 years old; half are between 17 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,748 people named Nicoletta (1,744 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,389 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 71 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 167 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 162 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 274 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 479 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 278 |
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 Nicoletta born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9 | #1,487 | 3.7× |
Where Nicoletta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nicoletta is most over-represented in New York: since 1911 it was given 3.7 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 Nicoletta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 21,309 babies since 1880, Nicoletta is the second most given (9.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 152 babies (18%), again the second most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolette | 17,134 | 118 | 1994 |
| Nicoletta | 2,023 | 27 | 2000 |
| Nicollette | 1,229 | under 5 | 1991 |
| Nikolette | 518 | under 5 | 1994 |
| Nikoletta | 193 | 7 | 2016 |
| Nickolette | 131 | under 5 | 1951 |
| Nikoleta | 81 | under 5 | 2010 |
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 Nicoletta
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 Nicoletta and names like it
- Compare Nicoletta and NicoletteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNicoletta peaked in 2000.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicoletta since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Nicoletta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Nicoletta.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nicoletta alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.