Meaning not yet researched.
Nikole: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #689 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #689 in 1972; #6,487 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nikole in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,487 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #689.
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Nikole: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #689 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 237 (1993).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Nikole, making it the 6,487th most common girls’ name of the year, up 371 places from #6,858 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 17 girls named Nikole in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #689, reached in 1972. The most girls given the name in a single year was 237, in 1993. For comparison, it was #3,829 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nikole in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 6,982 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,864 babies named Nikole.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 258 US girls were named Nikole; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nicole (596,465 babies since 1880), Nicola (8,090 babies since 1880), Nicolle (6,077 babies since 1880) and Nickole (2,542 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nikkol, Nikelle and Nikil are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Nikki.
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: Nikkol (132), Nikelle (112), Nikil (30), Nikel (15), Nikohl (11), Nikul (6), Nekol (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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,487 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,858 | — | — |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,344 | — | — |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,758 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,915 | — | — |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,130 | — | — |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,743 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,103 | — | — |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,975 | — | — |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,959 | — | — |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,829 | — | — |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,998 | — | — |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,685 | — | — |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,148 | — | — |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 2005 | 96 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 2003 | 95 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 2001 | 128 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1999 | 132 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1998 | 131 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 1997 | 171 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1996 | 161 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1995 | 165 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1994 | 215 | #896 | — | — |
| 1993 | 237 | #834 | — | — |
| 1992 | 206 | #944 | — | — |
| 1991 | 211 | #914 | — | — |
| 1990 | 235 | #838 | — | — |
| 1989 | 196 | #920 | — | — |
| 1988 | 203 | #871 | — | — |
| 1987 | 224 | #788 | — | — |
| 1986 | 180 | #904 | — | — |
| 1985 | 183 | #878 | — | — |
| 1984 | 146 | #993 | — | — |
| 1983 | 170 | #893 | — | — |
| 1982 | 161 | #933 | — | — |
| 1981 | 155 | #952 | — | — |
| 1980 | 181 | #856 | — | — |
| 1979 | 166 | #902 | — | — |
| 1978 | 158 | #905 | — | — |
| 1977 | 155 | #913 | — | — |
| 1976 | 162 | #846 | — | — |
| 1975 | 157 | #853 | — | — |
| 1974 | 175 | #784 | — | — |
| 1973 | 161 | #818 | — | — |
| 1972 | 213 | #689 | — | — |
| 1971 | 121 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1970 | 107 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1969 | 94 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,176 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,494 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,385 | — | — |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,270 | — | — |
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).