Meaning not yet researched.
Nichelle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #486 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #486 in 1968; #11,639 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nichelle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,639 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #486.
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Nichelle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #486 in 1968 · most girls in one year: 395 (1968).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Nichelle, making it the 11,639th most common girls’ name of the year, down 770 places from #10,869 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 9 girls named Nichelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #486, reached in 1968. That year also had the most girls given the name: 395. For comparison, it was #6,649 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nichelle in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 13 babies. In all, 5,548 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,282 babies named Nichelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 116 US girls were named Nichelle; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nichole (63,954 babies since 1880) and Nicholle (1,837 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nechelle and Nychelle are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nechelle (295), Nychelle (157).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nichelle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,639 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,869 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,679 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,543 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,892 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,375 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,479 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,480 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,338 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,511 | — | — |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,649 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,379 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,944 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,377 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,340 | — | — |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,917 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,347 | — | — |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,426 | — | — |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,773 | — | — |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,335 | — | — |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,728 | — | — |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,510 | — | — |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1995 | 116 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1994 | 136 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1993 | 132 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1992 | 181 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1991 | 169 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1990 | 157 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1989 | 155 | #1,087 | 5 | #8,841 |
| 1988 | 121 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1987 | 139 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1986 | 118 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1985 | 152 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1984 | 132 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1982 | 123 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1981 | 90 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1980 | 135 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1979 | 94 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1978 | 124 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1977 | 102 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1976 | 87 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1975 | 117 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1974 | 107 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1973 | 114 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1972 | 112 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1971 | 164 | #840 | — | — |
| 1970 | 205 | #727 | — | — |
| 1969 | 331 | #540 | — | — |
| 1968 | 395 | #486 | — | — |
| 1967 | 361 | #500 | — | — |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,501 | — | — |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,795 | — | — |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,739 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).