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Nicolle

#2,678 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Nicolle has been given to 6,077 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #2,678 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 216 recorded.

Babies named Nicolle, 2025

1 in 51,000

Nicolle over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nicolle: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nicolle means

Nicolle is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nicolle is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,077 girls were recorded with the name Nicolle between 1957 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 216 in 1970; its best national rank was #713 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,892 in 2020 to #2,678 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,991 in 2015 to #2,678 in 2025.

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 Nicolle?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,678
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nicolle 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 2025 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 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nicolle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nicolles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nicolle was born before 1988 — so the typical Nicolle is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,077
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (1,571).

Is Nicolle 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
+362
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,214
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+313
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.12×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.1%
Peak was 1970 (216)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#713
1970

Spellings of Nicolle

Nicolle is not the most common spelling — Nicole is, with 85.6% against Nicolle's 0.88%.

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 Nicolle is used

Across 1910–2025, Nicolle was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 33,224 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 12,500
  2. 2Florida1 in 14,286
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 14,286
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 20,000
  6. 6New York1 in 20,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 33,333
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Nicolle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nicolle around the world

Where Nicolle 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
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1975–2000
    #371
    in 2000
  • Ireland
    1990–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    1901–2015
    #5,920
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,626
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1949–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Nicolle

People whose public names include Nicolle, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nicolle in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Nicolle. Linked forms have their own page here.

Nicole

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Nicolle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,678
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,214
Best rank ever
#713
1970
Peak year
1970
216 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,077
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Nicolle

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

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Names with a curve like Nicolle

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nicolle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Nicolle

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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