Nikola
Nikola is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 108 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1080.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2020151 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1960
- 3,992people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,341 boys have been named Nikola in the United States since 1960, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 151 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 36%.
Nikola is used for both sexes: 16% of its bearers are girls (651), most of them born around 1972.
By decade
In 2020, its biggest year
Nikola was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Nikola
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ameerpeak 2021
- Mazenpeak 2024
- Jawadpeak 2023
- Ismailpeak 2016
- Abbaspeak 2018
- Mordechaipeak 2018
- Yasinpeak 2020
- Ahronpeak 2023
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.