Meaning not yet researched.
Nicola: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,124 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,124 in 1972; #3,920 in 2025. About 70% of babies named Nicola in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,920 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #1,124.
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Nicola: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,124 in 1972 · most boys in one year: 53 (1972).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Nicola, making it the 3,920th most common boys’ name of the year, down 548 places from #3,372 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 35 boys named Nicola in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,124, reached in 1972. That year also had the most boys given the name: 53. For comparison, it was #3,566 in 2015 and #2,172 in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Nicola, making it the 8,720th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,220 places from #7,500 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 15 girls named Nicola in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #762, reached in 1972. That year also had the most girls given the name: 183. For comparison, it was #6,190 in 2015 and #1,754 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nicola in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 6 babies. In all, 8,090 US babies have been given the name, 63% of them girls and 37% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,761 babies named Nicola.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 291 US boys were named Nicola; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nicole (596,465 babies since 1880), Nicky (9,442 babies since 1880), Nikole (6,982 babies since 1880) and Nikola (4,102 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Necola, Nicala and Nicaela are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian and Romanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Necola (64), Nicala (18), Nicaela (15), Niccola (10), Nicayla (8), Nixola (6), Nickcola (5), Nickyla (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.
No nicknames listed for Nicola 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 | 12 | #8,720 | 28 | #3,920 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,500 | 35 | #3,372 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,343 | 29 | #3,856 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,392 | 37 | #3,258 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,893 | 35 | #3,342 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,074 | 26 | #3,994 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,245 | 27 | #3,966 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,660 | 28 | #3,857 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,773 | 26 | #4,064 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,133 | 20 | #4,891 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,190 | 31 | #3,566 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,427 | 18 | #5,203 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,653 | 22 | #4,421 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,097 | 23 | #4,347 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,781 | 27 | #3,864 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,471 | 23 | #4,332 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,447 | 28 | #3,796 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,065 | 37 | #3,148 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,518 | 37 | #3,118 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,837 | 30 | #3,502 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,159 | 26 | #3,691 |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,439 | 33 | #3,056 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,664 | 40 | #2,566 |
| 2002 | 76 | #2,194 | 33 | #2,868 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,623 | 42 | #2,371 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,732 | 43 | #2,284 |
| 1999 | 66 | #2,278 | 41 | #2,255 |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,139 | 35 | #2,486 |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,109 | 48 | #1,925 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,957 | 40 | #2,131 |
| 1995 | 77 | #1,849 | 42 | #2,011 |
| 1994 | 76 | #1,885 | 38 | #2,163 |
| 1993 | 83 | #1,771 | 38 | #2,115 |
| 1992 | 95 | #1,617 | 43 | #1,901 |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,722 | 46 | #1,760 |
| 1990 | 94 | #1,602 | 42 | #1,862 |
| 1989 | 84 | #1,648 | 48 | #1,653 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,928 | 33 | #1,979 |
| 1987 | 79 | #1,588 | 25 | #2,313 |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,521 | 29 | #2,040 |
| 1985 | 87 | #1,444 | 34 | #1,780 |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,471 | 31 | #1,824 |
| 1983 | 94 | #1,298 | 27 | #1,998 |
| 1982 | 94 | #1,332 | 31 | #1,841 |
| 1981 | 93 | #1,348 | 31 | #1,848 |
| 1980 | 109 | #1,211 | 31 | #1,839 |
| 1979 | 138 | #1,022 | 42 | #1,455 |
| 1978 | 137 | #998 | 43 | #1,429 |
| 1977 | 109 | #1,156 | 40 | #1,467 |
| 1976 | 121 | #1,028 | 39 | #1,445 |
| 1975 | 129 | #969 | 43 | #1,335 |
| 1974 | 114 | #1,044 | 42 | #1,327 |
| 1973 | 126 | #955 | 47 | #1,216 |
| 1972 | 183 | #762 | 53 | #1,124 |
| 1971 | 143 | #914 | 45 | #1,249 |
| 1970 | 120 | #1,034 | 47 | #1,215 |
| 1969 | 141 | #889 | 47 | #1,146 |
| 1968 | 113 | #981 | 34 | #1,333 |
| 1967 | 87 | #1,138 | 19 | #1,841 |
| 1966 | 72 | #1,280 | 33 | #1,341 |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,455 | 40 | #1,217 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,770 | 37 | #1,306 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,536 | 43 | #1,189 |
| 1962 | 51 | #1,589 | 26 | #1,576 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,984 | 24 | #1,674 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,134 | 32 | #1,421 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,649 | 16 | #2,083 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,842 | 19 | #1,876 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,105 | 25 | #1,617 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,139 | 24 | #1,630 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,610 | 10 | #2,706 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,724 | 17 | #1,941 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,818 | 9 | #2,851 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,246 | 11 | #2,464 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,543 | 15 | #2,024 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,754 | 13 | #2,172 |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,483 | 9 | #2,745 |
| 1948 | 50 | #1,307 | 12 | #2,293 |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,624 | 8 | #3,028 |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,284 | 12 | #2,235 |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,306 | 7 | #2,920 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,175 | 6 | #3,346 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,764 | 9 | #2,659 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,248 | 9 | #2,602 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,139 | 12 | #2,154 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,125 | 8 | #2,753 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,812 | 8 | #2,799 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,749 | — | — |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #3,073 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,655 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,221 |
| 1933 | — | — | 9 | #2,673 |
| 1932 | — | — | 10 | #2,585 |
| 1931 | — | — | 13 | #2,173 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,941 |
| 1929 | — | — | 21 | #1,655 |
| 1928 | — | — | 16 | #2,022 |
| 1927 | — | — | 14 | #2,262 |
| 1926 | — | — | 18 | #1,888 |
| 1925 | — | — | 16 | #2,058 |
| 1924 | — | — | 22 | #1,712 |
| 1923 | — | — | 24 | #1,578 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,443 |
| 1921 | — | — | 19 | #1,876 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,555 | 25 | #1,536 |
| 1919 | — | — | 28 | #1,373 |
| 1918 | — | — | 29 | #1,333 |
| 1917 | — | — | 23 | #1,519 |
| 1916 | — | — | 25 | #1,404 |
| 1915 | — | — | 31 | #1,178 |
| 1914 | — | — | 18 | #1,477 |
| 1913 | — | — | 15 | #1,421 |
| 1912 | — | — | 17 | #1,164 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,682 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,775 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,322 |
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).