girls:
6.9k births since 1962
#1970 (66th percentile)
overall:
6.9k births since 1962
#3232 (58th percentile)
The name Nikole is the #3,232 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,946 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 58.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,970 (65.5% percentile) for all time with 6,946 births since 1962.
Nikole first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (first recorded for girls in 1962). Birth data for Nikole is available in 60 out of the 62 years between 1962 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Nikole reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 27.1% percentile (ranked #542) with 132 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 132 births per million (ranked 27.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nikole ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 8.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nikole".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Nikole", 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 3 different pronunciations for the name Nikole. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Nikole is pronounced as nih-KOHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NIH-kohl, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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.
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