girls:
63.7k births since 1942
#500 (91st percentile)
boys:
184 births since 1972
#4402 (4th percentile)
overall:
63.9k births since 1942
#926 (88th percentile)
The name Nichole is the #926 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 63,858 recorded births since 1942. This represents the 88.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #500 (91.3% percentile) for all time with 63,674 births since 1942. For boys, it ranks #4,402 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 184 births since 1972.
Nichole first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1942 (1942 for girls and 1972 for boys). Birth data for Nichole is available in 78 out of the 82 years between 1942 and 2023 (78 years for girls and 20 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nichole has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nichole reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 88.2% percentile (ranked #92) with 1,635 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 1,687 births per million (ranked 87.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1983, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nichole ranks #905 for girls (4.4% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 1.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Nichole reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #679) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nichole".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Nichole", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 37 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Nicole" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Nicole..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Nichole. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.9% confident that Nichole is pronounced as nih-KOHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NIH-kohl, at 21.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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