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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Nikola” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nikola” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nikola” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nikola” 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
1948 5 0.000001448 5 100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 -100%
1964 12 0.000003087 5 7 -17%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 100%
1966 15 0.000004316 6 9 -20%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 100%
1968 11 0.000003256 5 6 -9%
1969 17 0.000004892 9 8 6%
1970 29 0.000008041 17 12 17%
1971 22 0.00000641 13 9 18%
1972 34 0.000010818 20 14 18%
1973 26 0.000008618 19 7 46%
1974 27 0.000008882 14 13 4%
1975 36 0.000011923 18 18 0%
1976 25 0.000008239 11 14 -12%
1977 35 0.000011018 16 19 -9%
1978 33 0.000010397 13 20 -21%
1979 31 0.000009318 12 19 -23%
1980 27 0.000007839 7 20 -48%
1981 26 0.000007516 7 19 -46%
1982 37 0.000010547 11 26 -41%
1983 25 0.000007218 12 13 -4%
1984 25 0.000007166 8 17 -36%
1985 29 0.000008125 7 22 -52%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 -100%
1987 27 0.000007488 11 16 -19%
1988 20 0.000005413 20 -100%
1989 36 0.000009364 9 27 -50%
1990 39 0.000009867 5 34 -74%
1991 39 0.000010012 10 29 -49%
1992 36 0.000009372 10 26 -44%
1993 56 0.000014853 10 46 -64%
1994 62 0.000016677 12 50 -61%
1995 50 0.000013653 10 40 -60%
1996 56 0.000015354 15 41 -46%
1997 45 0.000012411 8 37 -64%
1998 56 0.000015225 11 45 -61%
1999 65 0.000017597 9 56 -72%
2000 77 0.000020371 13 64 -66%
2001 86 0.000022974 10 76 -77%
2002 69 0.000018458 10 59 -71%
2003 59 0.000015517 5 54 -83%
2004 83 0.000021723 10 73 -76%
2005 77 0.000020027 16 61 -58%
2006 82 0.000020727 11 71 -73%
2007 76 0.000019011 11 65 -71%
2008 99 0.000025187 11 88 -78%
2009 92 0.000024083 11 81 -76%
2010 97 0.000026246 16 81 -67%
2011 106 0.000028979 9 97 -83%
2012 114 0.00003117 12 102 -79%
2013 121 0.00003319 11 110 -82%
2014 133 0.000035884 13 120 -80%
2015 157 0.000042422 16 141 -80%
2016 150 0.000040886 18 132 -76%
2017 141 0.000039427 9 132 -87%
2018 158 0.000044939 10 148 -87%
2019 152 0.000043792 18 134 -76%
2020 159 0.000047597 8 151 -90%
2021 159 0.000046931 12 147 -85%
2022 134 0.000039608 9 125 -87%
2023 132 0.000039865 6 126 -91%
2024 114 0.00003425 6 108 -89%

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