Nykole
Nykole was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 233 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nykole by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nykole?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,344, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1993, the peak
Nykole peaked in 1993, when 16 girls were given it, #5,857 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #17,344 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,719 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,985 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,444 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,093 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,732 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,933 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,582 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,708 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,257 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 11 | #9,314 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,229 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,502 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,639 | 6.2 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,334 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,960 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,857 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,540 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,131 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,170 | 6.3 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,513 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,833 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,968 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,254 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,210 | 5.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,751 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,106 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nykole a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nykole has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nykole: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nykole, and how old are they?
An estimated 228 Americans named Nykole and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 21 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 251 people named Nykole (251 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 229 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Nykole?
Nykole is a less common spelling of Nicole: SSA has recorded 233 Nykole and 596,465 Nicole since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 608,115 babies since 1880, Nykole is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 821 babies recorded by SSA was a Nykole (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Nykole
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 Nykole and names like it
- Compare Nykole and NicoleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNykole peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nykole since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Nykole.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nykole alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.