Nichola

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nichola: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nichola: Recorded since 1964, it reached #140 in 1983, and it was last ranked in 2010.

3registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
47years from first to last
#140highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2010

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#582
1997	#705
1998	#898
1999	#1317
2000	#1389
2001	#1617
2002	#1784
2003	#1996
2004	#2802
2005	#2247
2006	#2137
2007	#3667
2008	#3397
2009	#3031
2010	#3156

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 36 of the 44 years from 1964 to 2007.

In 2007: #842 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3667 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1964–2010 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #300 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1964–2007
Highest recorded position: #140 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1983 (recorded 1964–2007).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2010
Most recently recorded at #3156 among girls in England and Wales, in 2010.
England and Wales · Girls

Nichola appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 36 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 718 births with the name.

Nichola across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Nichola's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#300 (1964)	#140 (1983)	#842 (2007)	36 of 44	718 (1964–2007)	49 (1983)
England and Wales · Girls	#582 (1996)	#582 (1996)	#3156 (2010)	15 of 15	207 (1996–2010)	42 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (1997)	#220 (2000)	#220 (2000)	4 of 4	15 (1997–2000)	6 (2000)

Nichola by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Nichola in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	35	5 of 10	7
1970sbusiest	304	10 of 10	30
1980s	268	10 of 10	27
1990s	105	9 of 10	12
2000s	6	2 of 10	3

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 30 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Nichola appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #140 in Republic of Ireland in 1983.

Nichola's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1784	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1617	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1389	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1317	14	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#898	24	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#705	34	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#582	42	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#220	6	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#344	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	4	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#394	6	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#316	9	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#352	7	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#309	9	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#254	14	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#249	15	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#300	10	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#157	31	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#212	19	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#304	10	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#218	20	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#211	20	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#141	41	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#200	26	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#140	49	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#185	30	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#184	35	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#245	18	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#161	40	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#180	35	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#154	45	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#188	30	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#170	35	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#202	26	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#184	31	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#188	27	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#220	19	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#220	16	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#255	11	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#287	7	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#253	8	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	4	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#300	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1964 and 2010, ranked in 46 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #140, first reached in 1983.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 49 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1983.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 33 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Nicholas · #6, 73y
Nichole · #340, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Beata · #141, 49y
Johnathan · #139, 49y
Clifford · #142, 51y
Diarmaid · #142, 50y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Beata · #141, 49y
Jaroslaw · #139, 36y
Jayne · #139, 53y
Lorenzo · #139, 31y

Nichola was ranked #140 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1983. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nichola and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nichola without appearing here.

Nichola moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3397 and #2487 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #3156 and #4688.
Jordan Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3031 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #3156 and #4012.
Gail Compare
In 1980 they stood at #245 and #245 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1981 that had become #184 and #287.
Cheryl Compare
In 1994 they stood at #309 and #255 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1995 that had become #352 and #451.

Moved ahead of Nichola

Hayden Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2247 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #3667 and #1741.
Dylan Compare
In 2006 they stood at #2137 and #3548 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #3667 and #2085.
Alma Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1996 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2802 and #1535.
Karin Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3667 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3397 and #2150.

Moved the opposite way to Nichola

Aisling Compare
Between 1964 and 2007 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nichola went from #300 to #842 while Aisling went from #154 to #36.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1964 and 2007 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nichola went from #300 to #842 while Alexandra went from #222 to #67.
Anna Compare
Between 1964 and 2007 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nichola went from #300 to #842 while Anna went from #34 to #20.
Aoife Compare
Between 1964 and 2007 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nichola went from #300 to #842 while Aoife went from #206 to #7.

Moved the same way as Nichola

Alma Compare
Between 1964 and 2007 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nichola went from #300 to #842 and Alma from #327 to #842.
Angela Compare
Between 1964 and 2007 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nichola went from #300 to #842 and Angela from #24 to #404.
Audrey Compare
Between 1964 and 2007 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nichola went from #300 to #842 and Audrey from #85 to #842.
Deirdre Compare
Between 1964 and 2007 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nichola went from #300 to #842 and Deirdre from #14 to #326.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #140 in Republic of Ireland in 1983. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Nichola

Nichola at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nichola across 3 official records

Nichola by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Nichola appears in

Popularity data

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Nichola at a glance

Nichola across 3 official records

Nichola by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Nichola

Nichola and the names beside it

Nichola moved ahead of

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