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How popular is “Nichola” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nichola” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nichola” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Nichola” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Nichola” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Nichola” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Nichola” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nichola” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1942 5 0.00000183 5 100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 100%
1946 16 0.000005007 16 100%
1947 11 0.000003054 11 100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 100%
1949 13 0.000003731 13 100%
1950 14 0.000003996 14 100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 100%
1964 18 0.00000463 18 100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1967 18 0.000005302 18 100%
1968 21 0.000006216 21 100%
1969 42 0.000012085 42 100%
1970 30 0.000008318 30 100%
1971 26 0.000007575 26 100%
1972 30 0.000009545 30 100%
1973 30 0.000009944 30 100%
1974 33 0.000010855 26 7 58%
1975 23 0.000007617 23 100%
1976 29 0.000009557 29 100%
1977 27 0.0000085 27 100%
1978 25 0.000007877 25 100%
1979 40 0.000012023 30 10 50%
1980 32 0.00000929 27 5 69%
1981 30 0.000008672 25 5 67%
1982 30 0.000008552 18 12 20%
1983 32 0.00000924 25 7 56%
1984 22 0.000006306 22 100%
1985 25 0.000007005 13 12 4%
1986 29 0.000008153 17 12 17%
1987 15 0.00000416 15 100%
1988 20 0.000005413 10 10 0%
1989 28 0.000007283 15 13 7%
1990 15 0.000003795 9 6 20%
1991 17 0.000004364 10 7 18%
1992 15 0.000003905 9 6 20%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 -100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 100%
1996 11 0.000003016 6 5 9%
1997 7 0.000001931 7 100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 100%
1999 11 0.000002978 11 100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 100%

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