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Nicolette

About 17,134 American babies have been named Nicolette since 1914, most of them around 1994. In 2025 it ranked 1,721st. About 16,000 Nicolettes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Nicolette boys named Nicolette

By the numbers

Total US births
17,134
Estimated living today
16,000
Median age today
31
Peak year
1994
Best rank
328th
Rank in 2025
1,721st
First recorded
1914
Girls / boys
17,129 / 5

How old the living Nicolettes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 17,134 babies given the name since 1914, about 16,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 840 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 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.

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Nicolette is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Nicolette is most concentrated in New Jersey (3.0×), New York (2.2×), Arizona (2.1×), California (2.1×).

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

Names of 1994

The most popular girls’ names the year Nicolette peaked:

All the names of 1994

Nicolette elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Nicolette 770 565th
England and Wales girls Nicolette 74 2,759th
Scotland girls Nicolette 10 444th
Poland girls Nicolette 4 birth registrations 516th
Ireland girls Nicolette 3 503rd

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.

Nicolette 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
the Netherlands girls Nicolette 3,711 6,451
Finland girls Nicolette 12 33
the Netherlands boys Nicolette 23

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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.

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Nicolette against another name

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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.