How popular is “Nicole” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nicole” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nicole” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nicole” 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
1937	9	0.000004224	9		100%
1938	7	0.000003164	7		100%
1939	12	0.000005446	12		100%
1940	25	0.000010857	25		100%
1941	31	0.000012724	31		100%
1942	70	0.000025624	70		100%
1943	89	0.000031532	89		100%
1944	58	0.000021561	58		100%
1945	61	0.000022994	61		100%
1946	80	0.000025037	80		100%
1947	66	0.000018322	66		100%
1948	68	0.000019696	68		100%
1949	68	0.000019513	68		100%
1950	89	0.000025404	89		100%
1951	94	0.000025518	94		100%
1952	103	0.00002712	103		100%
1953	120	0.000031139	120		100%
1954	110	0.000027633	110		100%
1955	120	0.000029887	120		100%
1956	153	0.000037109	153		100%
1957	141	0.000033554	141		100%
1958	180	0.000043542	180		100%
1959	205	0.000049303	205		100%
1960	243	0.0000585	243		100%
1961	278	0.000067112	273	5	96%
1962	570	0.000141251	565	5	98%
1963	655	0.000165479	655		100%
1964	836	0.000215042	831	5	99%
1965	907	0.000250176	898	9	98%
1966	2037	0.000586077	2029	8	99%
1967	2784	0.000820054	2776	8	99%
1968	3091	0.000914927	3083	8	99%
1969	7243	0.002084123	7212	31	99%
1970	10742	0.0029785	10691	51	99%
1971	10471	0.003050675	10423	48	99%
1972	15829	0.00503628	15755	74	99%
1973	13981	0.004634247	13922	59	99%
1974	13170	0.004332238	13114	56	99%
1975	14340	0.004749297	14277	63	99%
1976	14515	0.00478364	14452	63	99%
1977	15321	0.004823242	15247	74	99%
1978	17358	0.005469033	17280	78	99%
1979	19580	0.005885182	19509	71	99%
1980	20003	0.005807219	19917	86	99%
1981	20396	0.005895863	20311	85	99%
1982	21790	0.006211584	21706	84	99%
1983	22486	0.006492578	22400	86	99%
1984	22346	0.00640515	22271	75	99%
1985	23044	0.006456512	22967	77	99%
1986	21377	0.006009708	21292	85	99%
1987	20363	0.005647582	20286	77	99%
1988	20374	0.005513873	20314	60	99%
1989	19141	0.00497887	19034	107	99%
1990	17995	0.00455284	17953	42	100%
1991	16079	0.004127832	16047	32	100%
1992	16362	0.004259525	16325	37	100%
1993	16223	0.004302864	16183	40	100%
1994	16050	0.00431724	16011	39	100%
1995	12299	0.003358405	12277	22	100%
1996	11154	0.003058241	11134	20	100%
1997	10761	0.002967939	10744	17	100%
1998	9920	0.002696966	9911	9	100%
1999	9537	0.002581847	9515	22	100%
2000	8583	0.002270692	8562	21	100%
2001	7834	0.002092755	7820	14	100%
2002	6991	0.001870106	6974	17	100%
2003	6248	0.001643208	6235	13	100%
2004	5758	0.001506966	5741	17	99%
2005	5005	0.001301743	4993	12	100%
2006	4335	0.001095752	4322	13	99%
2007	3883	0.000971313	3873	10	99%
2008	3295	0.000838281	3290	5	100%
2009	2777	0.00072693	2770	7	99%
2010	2570	0.000695395	2570		100%
2011	2660	0.000727215	2655	5	100%
2012	2661	0.000727573	2661		100%
2013	3359	0.000921368	3351	8	100%
2014	2540	0.000685306	2540		100%
2015	2116	0.000571751	2116		100%
2016	1954	0.000532614	1954		100%
2017	1664	0.000465299	1664		100%
2018	1429	0.00040644	1429		100%
2019	1370	0.000394707	1365	5	99%
2020	1163	0.000348143	1163		100%
2021	954	0.000281586	954		100%
2022	995	0.000294106	995		100%
2023	941	0.000284187	941		100%
2024	961	0.000288719	961		100%

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