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Nikoleta

Girls' name

Transliteration of Νικολέτα

Nikoleta has been given to 81 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 2010, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Nikoleta, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nikoleta: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Νικολέτα

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nikoleta means

Nikoleta is a transliteration of Νικολέτα.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Greek Νικολέτα (Nikoléta), a female given name used in (modern) Greece.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Nikoleta is used in English and Slovak.

Nikoleta comes through Greek Νικολέτα.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Νικολέτα.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovak, Nikoleta is pronounced /ɲikɔʎeta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 81 girls were recorded with the name Nikoleta between 1985 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2010; its best national rank was #10,237 in 1985.

How common is Nikoleta?

Nikoleta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nikoleta 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikoleta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nikoletas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikoleta was born before 2010 — so the typical Nikoleta is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
81
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Nikoleta 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (8)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,237
1985

Spellings of Nikoleta

Nikoleta is not the most common spelling — Violeta is, with 46.0% against Nikoleta's 0.43%.

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.

Nikoleta around the world

Where Nikoleta 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1959–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nikoleta 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
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Best rank ever
#10,237
1985
Peak year
2010
8 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
81
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nikoleta

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

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Sibling names for Nikoleta

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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