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How popular is “Nichole” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nichole” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nichole” 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 “Nichole” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nichole” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nichole” 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 11 0.000004027 11 100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 100%
1949 10 0.00000287 10 100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 100%
1959 12 0.000002886 12 100%
1960 15 0.000003611 15 100%
1961 15 0.000003621 15 100%
1962 32 0.00000793 32 100%
1963 42 0.000010611 42 100%
1964 50 0.000012861 50 100%
1965 39 0.000010757 39 100%
1966 135 0.000038842 135 100%
1967 148 0.000043595 148 100%
1968 195 0.000057719 195 100%
1969 815 0.000234511 815 100%
1970 1042 0.000288922 1042 100%
1971 1114 0.000324558 1114 100%
1972 1953 0.000621382 1943 10 99%
1973 1729 0.000573107 1719 10 99%
1974 1694 0.000557237 1686 8 99%
1975 1764 0.000584223 1764 100%
1976 1773 0.000584319 1768 5 99%
1977 2069 0.000651347 2064 5 100%
1978 2521 0.000794298 2511 10 99%
1979 2920 0.000877668 2908 12 99%
1980 2951 0.000856727 2938 13 99%
1981 2779 0.000803324 2772 7 99%
1982 2932 0.000835813 2923 9 99%
1983 2933 0.000846871 2926 7 100%
1984 2820 0.000808311 2806 14 99%
1985 2962 0.000829899 2950 12 99%
1986 2662 0.000748367 2652 10 99%
1987 2549 0.000706953 2537 12 99%
1988 2511 0.000679559 2498 13 99%
1989 2243 0.000583439 2233 10 99%
1990 1997 0.000505253 1992 5 99%
1991 1659 0.000425902 1652 7 99%
1992 1581 0.000411582 1581 100%
1993 1394 0.000369734 1394 100%
1994 1260 0.000338924 1260 100%
1995 937 0.00025586 937 100%
1996 782 0.000214411 782 100%
1997 714 0.000196925 714 100%
1998 625 0.00016992 620 5 98%
1999 596 0.000161349 596 100%
2000 545 0.000144184 545 100%
2001 470 0.000125555 470 100%
2002 390 0.000104326 390 100%
2003 336 0.000088367 336 100%
2004 337 0.000088199 337 100%
2005 282 0.000073345 282 100%
2006 273 0.000069006 273 100%
2007 235 0.000058784 235 100%
2008 241 0.000061313 241 100%
2009 174 0.000045548 174 100%
2010 175 0.000047352 175 100%
2011 164 0.000044836 164 100%
2012 162 0.000044294 162 100%
2013 186 0.000051019 186 100%
2014 141 0.000038043 141 100%
2015 114 0.000030803 114 100%
2016 117 0.000031891 117 100%
2017 99 0.000027683 99 100%
2018 70 0.00001991 70 100%
2019 73 0.000021032 73 100%
2020 52 0.000015566 52 100%
2021 62 0.0000183 62 100%
2022 45 0.000013301 45 100%
2023 47 0.000014194 47 100%
2024 47 0.00001412 47 100%

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