# Nikola (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nikola/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,102 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,444 / 658 (16% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,108, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 11,908 |
| 2012 | 12 | 9,557 |
| 2013 | 11 | 10,070 |
| 2014 | 13 | 8,833 |
| 2015 | 16 | 7,511 |
| 2016 | 18 | 6,837 |
| 2017 | 9 | 11,371 |
| 2018 | 10 | 10,361 |
| 2019 | 18 | 6,630 |
| 2020 | 8 | 11,836 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,852 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10,989 |
| 2023 | 6 | 14,681 |
| 2024 | 6 | 14,801 |
| 2025 | 7 | 12,820 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 97 | 1,597 |
| 2012 | 102 | 1,557 |
| 2013 | 110 | 1,490 |
| 2014 | 120 | 1,411 |
| 2015 | 141 | 1,277 |
| 2016 | 132 | 1,355 |
| 2017 | 132 | 1,357 |
| 2018 | 148 | 1,250 |
| 2019 | 134 | 1,344 |
| 2020 | 151 | 1,239 |
| 2021 | 147 | 1,295 |
| 2022 | 125 | 1,453 |
| 2023 | 126 | 1,446 |
| 2024 | 108 | 1,595 |
| 2025 | 102 | 1,651 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 152 | 317 |
| 2012 | 140 | 345 |
| 2013 | 156 | 302 |
| 2014 | 141 | 326 |
| 2015 | 119 | 384 |
| 2016 | 123 | 372 |
| 2017 | 88 | 493 |
| 2018 | 65 | 624 |
| 2019 | 47 | 796 |
| 2020 | 45 | 807 |
| 2021 | 39 | 901 |
| 2022 | 26 | 1,245 |
| 2023 | 21 | 1,469 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,253 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,788 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,458 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2014 | 15 | 1,560 |
| 2015 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,498 |
| 2017 | 24 | 1,146 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,194 |
| 2019 | 24 | 1,113 |
| 2020 | 23 | 1,150 |
| 2021 | 20 | 1,290 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,609 |
| 2023 | 18 | 1,407 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 13 | 1,897 |

## People named Nikola

- Nikola Gruevski, Former politician from North Macedonia
- Nikola Kalinić, Croatian association football player
- Nikola Vlašić, Croatian footballer
- Nikola Karabatić, French handball player
- Nikola VII Zrinski, Croatian military commander (1620-1664)
- Nikola Moro, Croatian association football player
- Nikola Šubić Zrinski, Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and general (1508–1566)
- Nikola Katić, Bosnian association football player (born 1996)
- Nikola Pilić, Croatian tennis coach and former Yugoslavian tennis player
- Nikola Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2007 to 2012
- Nikola Mektić, Croatian tennis player
- Nikola Vasilj, Bosnian association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.