Nicolette
Feminine · “victory of the people”
Nicolette is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 17,129 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Nicolette is Nicole with a French diminutive, and the Greek behind it is victory of the people — the same nike that names both the goddess and the sportswear.
How old is the name Nicolette?
Nicolette first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Nicolette alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 16,500 people named Nicolette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Nicolette most popular?
Nicolette peaked in 1993, reaching #327 nationally. Today it ranks #1721, 1,394 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Nikolaos to Nicolette
The story of Nicolette
Nicholas was one of the great names of European Christianity, and French made Nicole and its diminutive Nicolette. The thirteenth-century French romance Aucassin et Nicolette gave the name a literary life of its own. American families took it up in the twentieth century alongside Nicole, and Nicolette peaked around 1997.
Meaning
victory of the people
Through Nicole and Nicholas, from the Greek Nikolaos — nike, 'victory', and laos, 'people'. Both elements are ordinary Greek and the compound is undisputed. The -ette is a French diminutive suffix rather than part of the original.
How the name formed
- Nikolaos
- Nicole
- Nicolette
Related forms: Nicolette · Nichollette · Nicoletta
Pronouncing Nicolette
nik-uh-LET
Three syllables, stress on the third. French says it the same way with a softer final t.
Nicknames for Nicolette
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1914
- Most girls named
- 1993802 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #327reached in 1993
- Change vs 2023
- +9.3%118 in 2025, from 108
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Nicolette in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Nicolette in French — same name
- Nichollette in English — spelling variant
- Nicoletta in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, New Jersey.
Nicolettes among us
people named Nicolette are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,621 born in 2025 was named Nicolette
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tamra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Nicolette's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tamra climbed just as high around 1959, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tamra's path sketches the road Nicolette is walking now.
Nicolette sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Nicolette is headed
Nicolette should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Nicolette beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Nicolette in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is transparent, undisputed and unusually forceful.
- A thirteenth-century French romance carries the name.
- Nicky and Coco are two short forms at very different registers.
- Nicole is much the commoner form and will often be assumed.
- Three syllables and a diminutive ending make it a long way from the parent name.
- It is closely dated to the 1990s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Nicolettes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 16,500 people named Nicolette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Nicolette in 2025?
- Nicolette ranks #1721 among US girl names in 2025, with 118 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Nicolette?
- About 1 in every 13,621 US girls born in 2025 was named Nicolette — 118 in all.
- Will my child share the name Nicolette with classmates?
- Nicolette will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Nicolette
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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