Nikole

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Nikole: Recorded since 1996, it reached #444 in 2011, and it stood at #856 in 2023.

3registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#444highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#3824
1999	#3900
2000	#3247
2002	#2868
2003	#4373
2004	#3725
2005	#4798
2006	#3548
2007	#3667
2008	#3005
2009	#2148
2010	#2843
2011	#2025
2012	#4171
2013	#3160
2014	#2862
2015	#4736
2016	#2367
2017	#2925
2019	#2458
2020	#3117
2021	#3192
2022	#3533
2023	#4709

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 25 of the 28 years from 1996 to 2023.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4709 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4709 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Nikole appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 155 births with the name.

Nikole across 2 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.

Nikole'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	#3126 (1996)	#2025 (2011)	#4709 (2023)	25 of 28	155 (1996–2023)	13 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#893 (2009)	#856 (2023)	#856 (2023)	2 of 15	6 (2009–2023)	3 (2009)

Nikole 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 Nikole in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	10	3 of 10	3
2000s	47	9 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	74	9 of 10	8
2020s	24	4 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

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

Nikole 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 1996 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #444 in Northern Ireland in 2011.

Nikole'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
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	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 1996 and 2023, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #444, first reached in 2011.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 15 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.

Nikolas · #177, 40y
Nikolay · #294, 51y
Nikoline · #103, 36y
Nikos · #1850, 18y

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.

Kalina · #444, 22y
Lillianna · #444, 23y
Maiya · #444, 28y
Poppi · #444, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Camila · #444, 27y
Faizan · #444, 29y
Kaileigh · #444, 10y
Kalina · #444, 22y

Nikole was ranked #444 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2011. 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.

Nikole 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 Nikole without appearing here.

Nikole moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4736 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2367 and #5785.
Jeanette Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4736 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2367 and #5785.
Kristine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4736 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2367 and #5785.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2843 and #5707.

Moved ahead of Nikole

Hayden Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2025 and #2150 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4171 and #1720.
Malin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3533 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #2346.
Maren Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3533 and #4645 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #2927.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #1939.

Moved the opposite way to Nikole

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Nikole went from #3126 to #4709 while Ada went from #2683 to #37.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Nikole went from #3126 to #4709 while Alma went from #2096 to #228.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Nikole went from #3126 to #4709 while Alyssa went from #783 to #241.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Nikole went from #3126 to #4709 while Amalie went from #2096 to #865.

Moved the same way as Nikole

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Nikole went from #3126 to #4709 and Abigail from #21 to #134.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Nikole went from #3126 to #4709 and Aimee from #70 to #1206.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Nikole went from #3126 to #4709 and Aisling from #440 to #2504.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Nikole went from #3126 to #4709 and Alex from #161 to #2504.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 1996 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #444 in Northern Ireland in 2011. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Nikole

Nikole at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nikole across 2 official records

Nikole by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Popularity data

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Nikole at a glance

Nikole across 2 official records

Nikole by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Nikole and the names beside it

Nikole moved ahead of

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