Baby name

FADING GIRL · GREEK-ENGLISH
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Nichole

/ni · KOHL/


“Victory of the people”

American variant spelling of Nicole, from Greek Nikolaos meaning 'victory of the people'; the H insertion is a distinctly American stylistic habit.

nikki

strongwarm

How it ages.

Peaked in the 1980s and 1990s in the US; the variant spelling dates it to that era.

The cultural moment.

Common in the US from the 1970s through the 1990s; rare in new births since 2005.