Nicolette
Nicolette was given to 118 girls in 2025, #1,729 among girls’ names; 17,134 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,400 Americans named Nicolette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicolette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nicolette mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nicolette is “a female given name from French.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nicolette?
#1,729 among girls’ names, 2025
Nicolette fell from #1,675 in 2015 to #1,729 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 71.7 to 73.4 per million.
821 babies in 1994, the peak
Nicolette peaked in 1994, when 821 girls were given it, #328 among girls’ names. The 118 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,729 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,027 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,863 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 133 | #1,596 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 141 | #1,504 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,685 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 120 | #1,738 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 126 | #1,669 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 124 | #1,720 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 158 | #1,462 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 128 | #1,675 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 146 | #1,513 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,462 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 159 | #1,443 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 163 | #1,407 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 192 | #1,252 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 186 | #1,305 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 224 | #1,148 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 217 | #1,177 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 260 | #1,000 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 292 | #868 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 287 | #858 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 267 | #895 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 319 | #757 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 390 | #649 | 0.22 |
| 2000 | 437 | #590 | 0.24 |
| 1999 | 479 | #530 | 0.27 |
| 1998 | 419 | #579 | 0.24 |
| 1997 | 523 | #480 | 0.30 |
| 1996 | 603 | #424 | 0.34 |
| 1995 | 676 | #392 | 0.38 |
| 1994 | 821 | #328 | 0.46 |
| 1993 | 802 | #327 | 0.44 |
| 1992 | 757 | #343 | 0.41 |
| 1991 | 663 | #388 | 0.35 |
| 1990 | 470 | #511 | 0.25 |
| 1989 | 315 | #650 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 277 | #694 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 258 | #712 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 231 | #756 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 250 | #698 | 0.15 |
| 1984 | 222 | #739 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 276 | #626 | 0.17 |
| 1982 | 384 | #520 | 0.23 |
| 1981 | 342 | #545 | 0.21 |
| 1980 | 375 | #516 | 0.23 |
| 1979 | 249 | #686 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 68 | #1,590 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,846 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,859 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 85 | #1,307 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 89 | #1,232 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 79 | #1,299 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 108 | #1,069 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 105 | #1,124 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 100 | #1,161 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 89 | #1,188 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,051 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 90 | #1,102 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 74 | #1,257 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 75 | #1,247 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 79 | #1,244 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 93 | #1,137 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 90 | #1,157 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 67 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 71 | #1,308 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,284 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 68 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 59 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 73 | #1,224 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 64 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 65 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 86 | #1,046 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 92 | #988 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 103 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 92 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 68 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 53 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,127 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,611 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,701 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,524 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,508 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,501 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,384 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,875 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,877 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,692 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,560 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,498 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,925 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,859 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,649 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,271 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,038 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicolette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicolette has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 98 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nicolette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicolette, and how old are they?
16,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 17,134 Americans ever recorded as Nicolette. The median Nicolette alive today is 32 years old; half are between 24 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 14,753 people named Nicolette (14,738 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,886 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 48 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,060 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,670 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,660 |
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 Nicolette born?
The states with the most babies named Nicolette are California, New Jersey and New York, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,556 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #526 | 2.3× |
| New York | 14 | #1,073 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,515 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,574 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,003 | 1.1× |
| Connecticut | 5 | #604 | 0.4× |
Where Nicolette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nicolette is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1914 it was given 2.3 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 Nicolette 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 21,228 babies since 1880, Nicolette is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 118 of their 152 babies (78%), again the 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 |
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 Nicolette
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 Nicolette and names like it
- Compare Nicolette and NicolettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNicolette peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicolette since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Nicolette: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Nicolette.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nicolette alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.