Nicholes
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nicholes has been given to 879 babies in the U.S. since 1950. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 40 recorded.
Babies named Nicholes, 2013
1 in 729,000
Nicholes over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nicholes?
Nicholes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,645,938 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 378,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,435 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nicholes sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nicholes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nicholess were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nicholes was born before 1991 — so the typical Nicholes is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 33.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 879
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (294).
Is Nicholes rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1989 (40)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.6% average annual change
Spellings of Nicholes
Nicholes is not the most common spelling — Nicholas is, with 86.0% against Nicholes's 0.08%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Nicholes is used
Across 1910–2025, Nicholes was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 525,412 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
- 6Washington1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nicholes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nicholes around the world
Where Nicholes ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1958–1958#433in 1958
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nicholes by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nicholes
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nicholes
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.