Nychelle
Nychelle was last recorded in 2011, when 9 babies were given it; 157 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nychelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nychelle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,909, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2005, the peak
Nychelle peaked in 2005, when 12 girls were given it, #9,303 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | #11,909 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,436 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,694 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,586 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,269 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,303 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,253 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,252 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,837 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,500 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #16,164 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,419 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,267 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,442 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,550 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,412 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,849 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,031 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,860 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,255 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,649 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,268 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,349 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nychelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nychelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nychelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nychelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 154 Americans named Nychelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 156 people named Nychelle (155 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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).
How common is the spelling Nychelle?
Nychelle is a less common spelling of Nichelle: SSA has recorded 157 Nychelle and 5,548 Nichelle since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,209 babies since 1880, Nychelle is the fourth most given (1.9% of them).
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 Nychelle
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 Nychelle and names like it
- Compare Nychelle and NichelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNychelle peaked in 2005.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Nychelle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nychelle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.