Nikoli
Nikoli was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,607 among boys’ names; 663 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nikoli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nikoli?
#11,607 among boys’ names, 2025
Nikoli fell from #3,412 in 2015 to #11,607 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.2 to 3.5 per million.
40 babies in 2010, the peak
Nikoli peaked in 2010, when 40 boys were given it, #2,948 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,607 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,131 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,785 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,797 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,883 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,528 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,863 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,693 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,946 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,583 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #3,412 | 17.2 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,220 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,931 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,602 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,577 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,948 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,889 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 32 | #3,469 | 15.7 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,226 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,582 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,413 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,414 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,779 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,900 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,339 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,957 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,945 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,094 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,546 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,428 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,559 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,494 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,082 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,150 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,347 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,941 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,847 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nikoli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nikoli has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nikoli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nikoli, and how old are they?
An estimated 654 Americans named Nikoli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 590 people named Nikoli (17 women and girls, 573 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 580 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,747 babies since 1880, Nikoli is the fifth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 706 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Nikoli
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 Nikoli and names like it
- Compare Nikoli and NikolaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNikoli peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nikoli since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Nikoli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nikoli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.