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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Nicola

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#8,720

down −1,220 places

2025 births

12

down −3 births

All-time births

5,078

0% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1972
183 births
Best rank
#762
in 1972
First recorded
1920
#5,555 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1981
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
90 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1972183#762Peak
  2. 1971143#914
  3. 1969141#889
  4. 1979138#1,022
  5. 1978137#998

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #762 in 1972 · peak births 183 in 1972

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 37% boys■ 63% girls

3,012 boys · 5,078 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Nicola has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.