Nicoleta
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- nee-koh-LET-tah
- Origin
- Greek
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Nicoleta is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “victory of the people”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Nicoleta mean?
Greek: spelling of Nicoletta; Italian feminine diminutive of Nicola (Nicholas)
“victory of the people”
An Italian feminine form of Nicholas, from the Greek Nikolaos.
Meaning borrowed from Nicoletta.
Is Nicoleta a girl's or a boy's name?
Nicoleta is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nicoleta in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 47% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Nicoleta, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 13 girls.
Half of all the girls named Nicoleta in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Nicoleta in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 13 | #2,157 |
| 2018 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
Nicknames for Nicoleta
- Nicky 5 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Nicoleta
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Arabella, Athena, Ophelia, Elena, Penelope, Nina, Lyra, Eliana, Nora, Nova, Aurora, Eliza
Names related to Nicoleta
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nicoleta: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nicoleta, updated 20 October 2026.