How rare is the name Nikole?

6,169 people in the United States have the first name Nikole, about 1 in 48,960. It ranks #3,406 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

NIKOLE

#3,406

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,169
About
1 in 48,960
This common or more
82.3%
Who bears it

Of the 6,169 people named Nikole, 67.4% reported their origin as White, 16.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.7% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Nikole peaked in 1993, when 237 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19622025
Peak year
1993
Births that year
237
In 2025*
18 ▼92%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,982 babies have been given the name since 1962. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Nikole by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,499. The largest share of babies named Nikole, 43.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#4,978159
1970s#1,4991,575
1980s#1,5431,799
1990s#1,7811,864
2000s#3,486938
2010s#5,420532
2020s#10,616115
Baby boom 1946–640.2%
Generation X 1965–8027.3%
Millennials 1981–9643.7%
Generation Z 1997–1222.2%
2013 and later6.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Nikole is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nikole has been most common in Utah (2.9×), Washington (2.4×), and Michigan (2.1×), and least common in Virginia (0.37×).

4,322 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Nikole

#3,404 Jamaal · 6,180#3,405 Lucretia · 6,177#3,407 Renita · 6,168#3,408 Katarzyna · 6,166

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nikole, most common first.

#78 Nicole · 544,076#3,813 Nikola · 5,177#7,269 Nickole · 2,115#11,586 Nikol · 1,101#16,565 Nikkole · 678#18,313 Nikoli · 590#30,312 Nijole · 288#42,623 Nikolle · 168

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