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Nikole

#6,486 in 2025Girls' name

Victory + people

Nikole has been given to 6,982 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #6,486 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 237 recorded.

Babies named Nikole, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nikole: meaning, origin, and history

Victory + people

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nikole means

Nikole means “victory + people”, associated with νίκη and λαός.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from the French Nicole, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”) + λαός (laós, “people”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Nikole (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Nikole is used in English.

Nikole comes through French Nicole.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Nikole is pronounced /nɪˈkoʊl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,982 girls were recorded with the name Nikole between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 237 in 1993; its best national rank was #689 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,127 in 2020 to #6,486 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,828 in 2015 to #6,486 in 2025.

How common is Nikole?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,486
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nikole 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikole. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nikoles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikole was born before 1989 — so the typical Nikole is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,982
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (1,864).

Is Nikole 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
+368
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,359
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,658
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.6%
Peak was 1993 (237)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#689
1972

Spellings of Nikole

Nikole is not the most common spelling — Nicole is, with 86.2% against Nikole's 1.0%.

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 Nikole is used

Across 1910–2025, Nikole was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 30,254 across all states with data. It was least common in Nebraska (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 12,500
  2. 2Washington1 in 14,286
  3. 3California1 in 16,667
  4. 4Florida1 in 16,667
  5. 5Michigan1 in 16,667
  6. 6Arizona1 in 20,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 25,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 25,000

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. Nikole has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nikole around the world

Where Nikole 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
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1990–1993
    #623
    in 1993
  • Northern Ireland
    2011–2011
    #444
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2009–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1974–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nikole by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,486
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,359
Best rank ever
#689
1972
Peak year
1993
237 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,982
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Nikole

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

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Names with a curve like Nikole

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

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Sibling names for Nikole

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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