This page shows the Nicola (girls) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2024. Each row below is one year in which Nicola was recorded as a first name for girls in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Nicola's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for girls that year.

The record for Nicola for girls sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Nicola appears in 49 of them, from 1974 to 2024, with 15,963 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1974, when the table records 935 babies given the name, at rank 1 among all first names for girls that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2024; years in which the table records no row for Nicola for girls are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2024. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among girls' first names
20243790
20233749
20204636
20193765
20184680
20174666
201610356
20159379
201421222
201323194
201222203
201121213
201020219
200933154
200832158
200725187
200631158
200523193
200438122
200340114
20025980
20018364
20007667
199910857
199814244
199715938
199621026
199521829
199431720
199337616
199238717
199145015
19905897
19896276
19886864
19877993
19868133
19858263
19847304
19838103
19827264
19817864
19807374
19797133
19787971
19776892
19768391
19759071
19749351

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