Nycole — girls' name
944 babies named Nycole in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1980. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
34% of everyone ever named Nycole was born in this single decade.
36 babies were named Nycole in 1980 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nycole
The Social Security Administration has registered 944 babies named Nycole between 1968 and 2014, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nycole currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 36 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nycole performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 320 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nycole shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 62 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Nycole in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nycole 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 944 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.
Nycole at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nycole popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1968
- Peak year (1980)
- 36
- Annual births at peak — across 47 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
944 total births across 47 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1980 with 36 births in a single year.
Nycole by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 320 births that decade — 34% of Nycole's all-time total
Nycole decade highlights
- Peak decade 320 births
- Runner-up 257 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Nycole's strongest decade
320 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Nycole by state
Where Nycole concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 62 | 6.6% |
| #2 | Illinois | | 15 | 1.6% |
| #3 | Michigan | | 10 | 1.1% |
62 of 944 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 6.6% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.6% of nationwide
- Michigan 1.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1968–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.