girls:
131 births since 1943
#5585 (2nd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1949
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
136 births since 1943
#7603 (2nd percentile)
The name Nickola is the #7,603 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 136 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,585 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 131 births since 1943. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1949.
Nickola first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (1943 for girls and 1949 for boys). Birth data for Nickola is available in 21 out of the 39 years between 1943 and 1981 (20 years for girls and 1 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 Nickola has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nickola reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #737) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
For boys, Nickola reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #586) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1949.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nickola".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nickola. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.5% confident that Nickola is pronounced as NIH-kuh-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NIH-koh-luh, at 34.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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