Nikola — #1592 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nikola

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,341 babies named Nikola between 1960 and 2024, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nikola currently holds the #1592 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 151 babies received it in a single year. Nikola is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 651 additional births since 1948.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nikola performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,197 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Nikola shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 434 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Nikola in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nikola 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 3,341 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.