Nicolina
Nicolina was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,051 among girls’ names; 1,814 Americans have been recorded with it since 1897 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Nicolina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 15 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicolina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nicolina mean?
Wiktionary, Romanian section
Nicolina is “a female given name”
Borrowed from Bulgarian Николина (Nikolina) or Ukrainian Ніколіна (Nikolina).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Romanian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nicolina?
#6,051 among girls’ names, 2025
Nicolina rose from #6,648 in 2015 to #6,051 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 12.4 per million.
34 babies in 2002, the peak
Nicolina peaked in 2002, when 34 girls were given it, #3,858 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,051 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,092 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,164 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,388 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,510 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,797 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,120 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,281 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,620 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,744 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,648 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,934 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,189 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,803 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,882 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,829 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,594 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,849 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,343 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,765 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,469 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,908 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,243 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,858 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,747 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,622 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,684 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,458 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,161 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,904 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,309 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,171 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,621 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,913 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,323 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,469 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,046 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,991 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,496 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,960 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,374 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,275 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,622 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,117 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,663 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,674 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,772 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,253 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,195 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,865 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,062 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,743 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,758 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,340 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,025 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,184 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,401 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,721 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,524 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,650 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,735 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,280 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,795 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,455 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,549 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,870 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,882 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,180 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,458 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,363 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,373 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,991 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,634 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,811 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,088 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,630 | 5.6 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,596 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,413 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,423 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,509 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,294 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,535 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,701 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,308 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,357 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,685 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,687 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,397 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,505 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,786 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,538 | 23.5 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,794 | 18.7 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,804 | 18.8 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,666 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,660 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,610 | 22.8 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,927 | 17.3 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,635 | 22.4 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,716 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,453 | 26.6 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,467 | 26.0 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,612 | 22.5 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,970 | 16.8 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,440 | 25.9 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,464 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,729 | 20.1 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,661 | 21.3 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,473 | 26.3 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,653 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,697 | 21.5 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,424 | 28.7 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,595 | 25.2 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,988 | 18.8 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,720 | 21.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicolina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicolina 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 Nicolina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicolina, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 65% of the 1,814 Americans ever recorded as Nicolina. The median Nicolina alive today is 28 years old; half are between 15 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,441 people named Nicolina (1,441 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,144 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 | 55 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 100 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 142 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 258 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 359 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 255 |
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 Nicolina born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #2,007 | 2.9× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,132 | 1.0× |
Where Nicolina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nicolina is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.9 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 Nicolina 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,480 babies since 1880, Nicolina is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 32 babies (63%), again the most given.
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 Nicolina
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 Nicolina and names like it
- Compare Nicolina and NikolinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNicolina peaked in 2002.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicolina since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Nicolina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nicolina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.