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Nicolasa vs Nicole

American parents have registered 596,465 Nicoles since 1880, against 1,127 Nicolasas. Nicole is still ahead, with 803 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Nicolasa against Nicole, 1880 to 2025 0 6k 12k 18k 24k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Nicolasa Nicole

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

Of the 123 years in which either name was published, Nicole for 87 years and Nicolasa for 36 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Nicolasa Nicole
Total US births 1,127596,465
Most in one year 4323,043
Babies in 2025 under 5803
Estimated living today 470576,000
Median age today 4939
Peak year 19201985
Best rank 1,152nd girls7th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked382nd
First recorded 18911937
Girls / boys 1,127 / 0594,500 / 1,965

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 Nicolasas alive today are over 49; half the Nicoles are over 39. That is 10 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Nicolasa Nicole
France 15294,055

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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