Nikole
Nikole was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,486 among girls’ names; 6,982 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,760 Americans named Nikole and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 27 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nikole by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nikole mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nikole is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the senses “victory” (νίκη) and “people” (λαός).
Borrowed from the French Nicole, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”) + λαός (laós, “people”).
/nɪˈkoʊl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nikole?
#6,486 among girls’ names, 2025
Nikole fell from #3,828 in 2015 to #6,486 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 11.2 per million.
237 babies in 1993, the peak
Nikole peaked in 1993, when 237 girls were given it, #833 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,486 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,854 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,339 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,755 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,910 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,127 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,739 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,099 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,974 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,959 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,828 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,528 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,998 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,856 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,684 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,147 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,634 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,948 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,532 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,199 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 96 | #1,990 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,954 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 95 | #1,921 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,765 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 128 | #1,471 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,443 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 132 | #1,345 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 131 | #1,347 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 171 | #1,103 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 161 | #1,127 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 165 | #1,083 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 215 | #895 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 237 | #833 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 206 | #942 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 211 | #912 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 235 | #837 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 196 | #917 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 203 | #871 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 224 | #788 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 180 | #904 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 183 | #878 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 146 | #993 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 170 | #893 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 161 | #933 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 155 | #952 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 181 | #856 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 166 | #902 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 158 | #905 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 155 | #913 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 162 | #846 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 157 | #853 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 175 | #784 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 161 | #818 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 213 | #689 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 121 | #1,024 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 107 | #1,103 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 94 | #1,150 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,688 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,175 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,493 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,269 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nikole a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nikole has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nikole: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nikole, and how old are they?
6,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,982 Americans ever recorded as Nikole. The median Nikole alive today is 36 years old; half are between 27 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 6,169 people named Nikole (6,158 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,710 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,790 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,970 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 464 |
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 Nikole born?
The states with the most babies named Nikole are California, New York and Texas, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 894 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 395 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 385 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 345 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 311 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 306 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 299 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 273 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Washington | 166 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 114 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Nikole is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nikole is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1962 it was given 1.3 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 Nikole 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 623,292 babies since 1880, Nikole is the third most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 926 babies (1.9%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Nikole
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 Nikole and names like it
- Compare Nikole and NicoleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNikole peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nikole since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Nikole.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nikole alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.