Meaning not yet researched.
Nichole: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #93 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #93 in 1983; #3,373 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nichole in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,373 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #93.
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Nichole: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 girls in 2025. Peak: #93 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 2,950 (1985).
In 2025, 46 US girls were named Nichole, making it the 3,373rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1 place from #3,374 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 47 girls named Nichole in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #93, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,950, in 1985. For comparison, it was #1,827 in 2015 and #5,124 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nichole in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 11 babies. In all, 63,954 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 27,342 babies named Nichole.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 659 US girls were named Nichole; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 117. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,941 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nicole (596,465 babies since 1880), Nicholle (1,837 babies since 1880), Nichelle (5,548 babies since 1880) and Nichol (2,922 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nichele, Nicholl and Nichoel are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cole, Nicki, Nicky and Nikki.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nichele (667), Nicholl (171), Nichoel (131), Nichell (56), Nechole (30), Nichel (18), Nychole (12), Nichoal (5).
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.
Nichole is listed as a nickname for Nicholette.
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 | 46 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,374 | — | — |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,366 | — | — |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,520 | — | — |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,779 | — | — |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,085 | — | — |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 2017 | 99 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 2016 | 117 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 2015 | 114 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 2014 | 141 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 2013 | 186 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 2012 | 162 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 2011 | 164 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 2010 | 175 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 2009 | 174 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 2008 | 241 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 2007 | 235 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 2006 | 273 | #959 | — | — |
| 2005 | 282 | #893 | — | — |
| 2004 | 337 | #770 | — | — |
| 2003 | 336 | #748 | — | — |
| 2002 | 390 | #648 | — | — |
| 2001 | 470 | #556 | — | — |
| 2000 | 545 | #495 | — | — |
| 1999 | 596 | #450 | — | — |
| 1998 | 620 | #427 | 5 | #10,811 |
| 1997 | 714 | #377 | — | — |
| 1996 | 783 | #354 | — | — |
| 1995 | 937 | #295 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,260 | #224 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,394 | #209 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,581 | #192 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,652 | #180 | 7 | #7,048 |
| 1990 | 1,992 | #151 | 5 | #9,091 |
| 1989 | 2,233 | #136 | 10 | #5,070 |
| 1988 | 2,497 | #115 | 13 | #3,836 |
| 1987 | 2,538 | #111 | 12 | #3,895 |
| 1986 | 2,652 | #105 | 10 | #4,371 |
| 1985 | 2,950 | #95 | 12 | #3,737 |
| 1984 | 2,806 | #97 | 14 | #3,223 |
| 1983 | 2,926 | #93 | 7 | #5,310 |
| 1982 | 2,923 | #99 | 9 | #4,480 |
| 1981 | 2,772 | #109 | 7 | #5,316 |
| 1980 | 2,938 | #102 | 13 | #3,376 |
| 1979 | 2,908 | #103 | 12 | #3,501 |
| 1978 | 2,511 | #116 | 10 | #3,774 |
| 1977 | 2,064 | #142 | 5 | #6,547 |
| 1976 | 1,768 | #148 | 5 | #6,205 |
| 1975 | 1,764 | #153 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,687 | #161 | 8 | #4,080 |
| 1973 | 1,718 | #160 | 10 | #3,372 |
| 1972 | 1,943 | #146 | 10 | #3,278 |
| 1971 | 1,114 | #262 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,042 | #283 | — | — |
| 1969 | 815 | #314 | — | — |
| 1968 | 195 | #696 | — | — |
| 1967 | 148 | #823 | — | — |
| 1966 | 135 | #863 | — | — |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,428 | — | — |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,763 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,416 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,799 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,764 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,293 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,549 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,124 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,555 | — | — |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,528 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,649 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,322 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,414 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,554 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,943 | — | — |
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).