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Nicolas vs Nicollette

American parents have registered 101,764 Nicolases since 1880, against 1,229 Nicollettes. Nicolas is still ahead, with 2,053 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nicolas against Nicollette, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nicolas Nicollette

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Nicolas has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Nicolas had 1,599 and Nicollette had 143.

Side by side

  Nicolas Nicollette
Total US births 101,7641,229
Most in one year 3,012143
Babies in 2025 2,053under 5
Estimated living today 97,0001,200
Median age today 2132
Peak year 20031991
Best rank 134th boys1,205th girls
Rank in 2025 177thunranked
First recorded 18821967
Girls / boys 179 / 101,5851,229 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Nicollettes alive today are over 32; half the Nicolases are over 21. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Nicolas and Nicollette.