How Many People Are Named Nikole?

6,770

people named Nikole are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 50,485 people in the US has this name

Based on 6,982 babies named Nikole in Social Security records from 1962 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,092

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,721

See the top 100

Peak Year

1993

237 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Basque, English
Pronunciation: ni-KOL (English)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Basque form of NICOLE, as well as an English variant.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Nikole in English. Counting Nikole and these spellings together, about 644,824 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Nikole in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Nikole alive today is about 35 years old, and 68% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 26 and 45 in 2025.

Under 30 2,157
31.9%
30 to 59 4,604
68%
60 and over 10
0.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Nikole first appears in the records in 1962 and was given most often in 1993, to 237 babies. In 2025, 18 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1962 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Nikole has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #689, in 1972. In 2025 it ranked #6,486.

Girls
Rank in 2025#6,486
Best rank#689 (1972)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,022 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Nikole alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Nikole were born in California than in any other state: about 869 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Nikole was given 2.4 times as often in Utah, 2.1 times in Michigan and 2.1 times in Washington.

California 869
New York 383
Texas 376
Michigan 331
Florida 300
Ohio 299
Illinois 288
Pennsylvania 264
Washington 161
New Jersey 111
Indiana 108
Utah 100
Arizona 95
Minnesota 84
Wisconsin 49
Iowa 47
Missouri 42
Massachusetts 40
Virginia 36
Oregon 36
Colorado 35
Connecticut 34
Maryland 32
Kansas 25
Oklahoma 18
Louisiana 5
Georgia 5
Nevada 5
Nebraska 5
Montana 5

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