Meaning not yet researched.
Nicole: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 803 in 2025. Its best rank was #6 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #6 in 1982; #383 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nicole in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#383 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #6.
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Nicole: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 803 girls in 2025. Peak: #6 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 22,966 (1985).
In 2025, 803 US girls were named Nicole, making it the 383rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 64 places from #319 in 2024. That is 161 fewer than the 964 girls named Nicole in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6, reached in 1982. The most girls given the name in a single year was 22,966, in 1985. For comparison, it was #154 in 2015 and #955 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nicole in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 9 babies. In all, 596,465 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 211,316 babies named Nicole.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,235 US girls were named Nicole; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,954. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,002 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nicole ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #194 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nichole (63,954 babies since 1880), Nico (22,322 babies since 1880), Nicola (8,090 babies since 1880) and Nikole (6,982 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nicoletta, Nycole and Nikol are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cole, Nicki, Nicky, Nikki and Nole.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, French, Italian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nicoletta (2,023), Nycole (944), Nikol (885), Nikkole (840), Micole (577), Nickol (236), Nykole (233), Nikoletta (193), Nickcole (127), Nikcole (109), Nicoll (56), Nekole (46), and more.
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.
Nicole is listed as a nickname for Nicholette.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 95 | #194 | #90 |
| Illinois | 47 | #213 | #111 |
| California | 132 | #253 | #76 |
| Arizona | 26 | #280 | #150 |
| Washington | 25 | #297 | #219 |
| New York | 53 | #324 | #109 |
| Texas | 104 | #330 | #85 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #343 | #164 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #367 | #163 |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #369 | #171 |
| Colorado | 16 | #384 | #183 |
| Virginia | 21 | #394 | #261 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #396 | #311 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #425 | #436 |
| Georgia | 27 | #426 | #195 |
| Utah | 10 | #433 | #289 |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #438 | #304 |
| Maryland | 12 | #453 | #158 |
| Idaho | 5 | #460 | #427 |
| North Carolina | 23 | #485 | #253 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #490 | #417 |
| Nevada | 6 | #491 | #98 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #525 | #106 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #607 | #302 |
| Ohio | 14 | #703 | #369 |
| Michigan | 11 | #724 | #338 |
| Alabama | 6 | #798 | #537 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #890 | #260 |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,004 | #396 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 803 | #383 | — | — |
| 2024 | 964 | #319 | — | — |
| 2023 | 942 | #326 | — | — |
| 2022 | 996 | #323 | — | — |
| 2021 | 955 | #341 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,163 | #266 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,365 | #229 | 5 | #13,553 |
| 2018 | 1,429 | #217 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,664 | #184 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,954 | #162 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,116 | #154 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,540 | #128 | — | — |
| 2013 | 3,352 | #91 | 8 | #9,408 |
| 2012 | 2,661 | #114 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2,655 | #117 | 5 | #13,749 |
| 2010 | 2,570 | #123 | — | — |
| 2009 | 2,770 | #119 | 7 | #10,652 |
| 2008 | 3,291 | #106 | 5 | #14,016 |
| 2007 | 3,873 | #86 | 10 | #8,002 |
| 2006 | 4,322 | #74 | 13 | #6,359 |
| 2005 | 4,993 | #56 | 12 | #6,510 |
| 2004 | 5,741 | #43 | 17 | #4,946 |
| 2003 | 6,238 | #40 | 13 | #5,784 |
| 2002 | 6,974 | #37 | 17 | #4,648 |
| 2001 | 7,820 | #36 | 14 | #5,323 |
| 2000 | 8,563 | #31 | 21 | #3,875 |
| 1999 | 9,515 | #25 | 22 | #3,557 |
| 1998 | 9,911 | #24 | 9 | #6,683 |
| 1997 | 10,744 | #21 | 17 | #4,002 |
| 1996 | 11,135 | #22 | 20 | #3,514 |
| 1995 | 12,277 | #19 | 22 | #3,161 |
| 1994 | 16,011 | #11 | 39 | #2,109 |
| 1993 | 16,183 | #13 | 40 | #2,037 |
| 1992 | 16,327 | #14 | 37 | #2,118 |
| 1991 | 16,046 | #15 | 32 | #2,277 |
| 1990 | 17,954 | #13 | 42 | #1,863 |
| 1989 | 19,032 | #12 | 107 | #990 |
| 1988 | 20,315 | #9 | 60 | #1,335 |
| 1987 | 20,286 | #8 | 77 | #1,100 |
| 1986 | 21,292 | #7 | 85 | #1,005 |
| 1985 | 22,966 | #7 | 77 | #1,053 |
| 1984 | 22,270 | #7 | 75 | #1,029 |
| 1983 | 22,400 | #7 | 86 | #952 |
| 1982 | 21,706 | #6 | 84 | #986 |
| 1981 | 20,310 | #7 | 85 | #983 |
| 1980 | 19,917 | #7 | 86 | #972 |
| 1979 | 19,510 | #9 | 71 | #1,053 |
| 1978 | 17,279 | #10 | 78 | #980 |
| 1977 | 15,247 | #15 | 74 | #1,003 |
| 1976 | 14,453 | #13 | 63 | #1,054 |
| 1975 | 14,275 | #10 | 63 | #1,049 |
| 1974 | 13,112 | #11 | 56 | #1,106 |
| 1973 | 13,922 | #11 | 59 | #1,064 |
| 1972 | 15,755 | #10 | 74 | #935 |
| 1971 | 10,423 | #27 | 48 | #1,194 |
| 1970 | 10,691 | #30 | 51 | #1,162 |
| 1969 | 7,212 | #47 | 31 | #1,457 |
| 1968 | 3,083 | #108 | 8 | #3,291 |
| 1967 | 2,776 | #122 | 8 | #3,161 |
| 1966 | 2,028 | #169 | 8 | #3,166 |
| 1965 | 898 | #298 | 9 | #2,926 |
| 1964 | 831 | #330 | 5 | #4,450 |
| 1963 | 655 | #381 | — | — |
| 1962 | 565 | #407 | 5 | #4,465 |
| 1961 | 273 | #614 | 5 | #4,473 |
| 1960 | 243 | #648 | — | — |
| 1959 | 205 | #700 | — | — |
| 1958 | 180 | #743 | — | — |
| 1957 | 141 | #858 | — | — |
| 1956 | 153 | #805 | — | — |
| 1955 | 120 | #894 | — | — |
| 1954 | 110 | #919 | — | — |
| 1953 | 120 | #853 | — | — |
| 1952 | 103 | #913 | — | — |
| 1951 | 93 | #964 | — | — |
| 1950 | 89 | #955 | — | — |
| 1949 | 68 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1948 | 68 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1947 | 66 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1946 | 80 | #934 | — | — |
| 1945 | 61 | #992 | — | — |
| 1944 | 58 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1943 | 89 | #827 | — | — |
| 1942 | 70 | #943 | — | — |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,742 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,095 | — | — |
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).