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Nikol

The girl's name Nikol has been in the national records since 1968, with 885 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 850 Nikols are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Nikol

By the numbers

Total US births
885
Estimated living today
850
Median age today
38
Peak year
1971
Best rank
2,064th
Rank in 2025
8,860th
First recorded
1968

How old the living Nikols are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 885 babies given the name since 1968, about 850 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Nikols

People named Nikol with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Nikol is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nikol is most concentrated in California (4.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1971

The most popular girls’ names the year Nikol peaked:

All the names of 1971

Nikol elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Poland girls Nikol 1,028 birth registrations 134th
Italy girls Nikol 429
England and Wales girls Nikol 248 1,526th
France girls Nikol 40 6,365th
Ireland girls Nikol 10 635th
Belgium girls Nikol 7 1,122nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Nikol: rank by region

In 2017, Nikol was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Nikol 642 7

In 2025, Nikol was given 2 times or more in 10 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Nikol 169 4
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Nikol 126 4
Łódzkie Nikol 104 8
Małopolskie Nikol 135 9
Mazowieckie Nikol 141 13
Opolskie Nikol 95 3
Pomorskie Nikol 146 5
Śląskie Nikol 117 11
Wielkopolskie Nikol 124 10
Zachodniopomorskie Nikol 131 4

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Nikol by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 2 548th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Nikol among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Nikol 15 21

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Nikol lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 593 women called Nikol were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Segovia Nikol 10 0.127 641
Alicante/Alacant Nikol 74 0.072 1,025
Valencia/València Nikol 74 0.052 1,070
Girona Nikol 21 0.051 1,271
Valladolid Nikol 12 0.044 1,129
Huesca Nikol 5 0.044 1,206

Listed in 27 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 25 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Nikol against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.