Nichole

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Nichole: Recorded since 1972, with a gap of 12 years, it reached #340 in 1993, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
53years from first to last
#340highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Nichole's record

Absent from every published list for 12 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#848
1997	#850
1998	#1165
1999	#1160
2000	#897
2001	#1617
2002	#2540
2003	#2191
2004	#2112
2005	#2247
2006	#1983
2007	#2627
2008	#3860
2009	#2535
2010	#2843
2013	#5742
2017	#5765
2018	#5666
2022	#5669
2024	#4843

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 England and Wales in 20 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2000: #536 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #897 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1972–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1972
First recorded at #471 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1972 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1972–2000
Highest recorded position: #340 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1993 (recorded 1972–2000).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Nichole appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 20 ranked years and 210 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1972.

Nichole 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.

Nichole'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
England and Wales · Girls	#848 (1996)	#848 (1996)	#4843 (2024)	20 of 29	210 (1996–2024)	26 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#471 (1972)	#340 (1993)	#536 (2000)	11 of 29	43 (1972–2000)	8 (1993)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (1997)	#351 (1998)	#351 (1998)	2 of 2	6 (1997–1998)	3 (1997)

Nichole by decade in England and Wales · 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 Nichole in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	86	4 of 10	22
2000sbusiest	100	10 of 10	10
2010s	17	4 of 10	4
2020s	7	2 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Nichole 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 1972 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #340 in Republic of Ireland in 1993.

Nichole'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
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2112	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1617	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1160	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1165	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#850	26	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#848	26	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	3	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#440	5	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	8	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#407	5	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#521	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#519	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	3	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 1972 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #340, first reached in 1993.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 26 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 12 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 25 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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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.

Arden · #339, 24y
Arwa · #341, 29y
Bronwen · #339, 31y
Carley · #339, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Hadi · #340, 41y
Bronwen · #339, 31y
Florian · #342, 44y
Rahel · #342, 41y

Nichole was ranked #340 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1993. 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.

Nichole 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 Nichole without appearing here.

Nichole moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5669 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #5891.
Donna Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5669 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #5891.
Geraldine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5666 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Nichole

Blake Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2535 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #1587.
Eabha Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2843 and #3156 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2313.
Luca Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2843 and #3156 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2649.
Meabh Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2627 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2887.

Moved the opposite way to Nichole

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nichole went from #848 to #4843 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nichole went from #848 to #4843 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nichole went from #848 to #4843 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nichole went from #848 to #4843 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Nichole

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nichole went from #848 to #4843 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nichole went from #848 to #4843 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nichole went from #848 to #4843 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nichole went from #848 to #4843 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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 1972 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #340 in Republic of Ireland in 1993. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nichole

Nichole at a glance

What stands out in Nichole's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nichole across 3 official records

Nichole by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Nichole appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Nichole at a glance

What stands out in Nichole's record

Nichole across 3 official records

Nichole by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Nichole appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Nichole

Nichole and the names beside it

Nichole moved ahead of

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