Nicole

girls:

592.7k births since 1937

#46 (99th percentile)

boys:

2k births since 1961

#2834 (38th percentile)

overall:

594.7k births since 1937

#101 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nicole".

1937 2023 19372023

Key Statistics

Total Births
592,717
Peak Births
22,966
Peak Year
1982
First Recorded
1937
Peak Percentile
99.4%
Current Percentile
67.5%
Peak Rank
#6
Current Rank
#308
Female statistics
Total Births
1,965
Peak Births
107
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1961
Peak Percentile
14.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#590
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Nicole

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Nicole. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 90.7% confident that Nicole is pronounced as nih-KOHL. The next most likely pronunciation is NIH-kohl, at 9.3% confidence.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Nicole. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Nicole, please vote using the thumbs up button.

NIH-KOHL (2 syllables)
7 names 67.1k births
N IH1 K OW1 L
nih-KAWL (2 syllables)
11 names 11.2k births
N IH0 K AO1 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like N IH0 K OW1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.