girls:
42 births since 1954
#5674 (1st percentile)
boys:
429 births since 1991
#4157 (9th percentile)
overall:
471 births since 1954
#7268 (6th percentile)
The name Nicoli is the #7,268 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 471 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 6.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,157 (9.3% percentile) for all time with 429 births since 1991. For girls, it ranks #5,674 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1954.
Nicoli first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (1954 for girls and 1991 for boys). Birth data for Nicoli is available in 39 out of the 70 years between 1954 and 2023 (32 years for boys and 7 years for girls). 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 Nicoli has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.1% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1991, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1954 to 1990), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1991 to 2023).
For boys, Nicoli reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #883) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Nicoli ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 19.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nicoli reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #737) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nicoli".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Nicoli. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.6% confident that Nicoli is pronounced as NIH-koh-lee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nih-KOH-lee, at 26.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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