Nikola

girls:

645 births since 1948

#5071 (11th percentile)

boys:

3.2k births since 1960

#2197 (52nd percentile)

overall:

3.9k births since 1948

#4417 (43rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1948 2023 19482023

Key Statistics

Total Births
645
Peak Births
20
Peak Year
1972
First Recorded
1948
Peak Percentile
2.0%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#686
Current Rank
#946
Female statistics
Total Births
3,230
Peak Births
151
Peak Year
2020
First Recorded
1960
Peak Percentile
16.2%
Current Percentile
13.0%
Peak Rank
#634
Current Rank
#793
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Nikola

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Nikola. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 36.4% confident that Nikola is pronounced as NIH-kuh-luh. The next most likely pronunciation is nih-KOH-luh, at 31.8% confidence.

nih-KOH-luh (3 syllables)
Verified
31.8% confidence
N IH0 K OW1 L AH0
NIH-koh-luh (3 syllables)
15.9% confidence
N IH1 K OW0 L AH0
nee-KOH-luh (3 syllables)
9.1% confidence
N IY0 K OW1 L AH0
nih-KOH-lah (3 syllables)
6.8% confidence
N IH0 K OW1 L AA0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

nih-KUH-luh (3 syllables)
1 name 8k births
N IH0 K AH1 L AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

NIH-kuh-loh (3 syllables)
3 names 2.5k births
N IH1 K AH0 L OW0

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 IH1 K AH0 L AH0) 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.