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Nicoleta

Girls' name

From French Nicolette; literal meaning unconfirmed

Nicoleta has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 2022, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Nicoleta, 2022

1 in 376,000

Nicoleta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nicoleta: meaning, origin, and history

From French Nicolette; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nicoleta means

Nicoleta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nicoleta is used in Romanian.

Nicoleta comes through French Nicolette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Nicoleta between 1981 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2022; its best national rank was #10,982 in 2022.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nicoleta?

Nicoleta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 376,000
9 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 182,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
260,760 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nicoleta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 260,760 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nicoleta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nicoletas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nicoleta was born before 2006 — so the typical Nicoleta is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
45
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Choose a decade

2000s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Nicoleta 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2022 (9)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,982
2022

Spellings of Nicoleta

Nicoleta is not the most common spelling — Nicole is, with 94.3% against Nicoleta's <0.01%.

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.

Nicoleta around the world

Where Nicoleta 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.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2017
    #734
    in 2017
  • France
    1968–2024
    #2,888
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2006–2008
    #2,774
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1962–1976
    #645
    in 1976

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nicoleta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,982
2022
Peak year
2022
9 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nicoleta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nicoleta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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