Nikki Bella's Real Name: Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace

Quick answer: The wrestler is known professionally as Nikki Bella. People and Biography.com independently give the name Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace. People dates the birth to November 21, 1983. Official WWE pages list her hometown as San Diego, California.

Real name and early life

Independent publishers identify her under the professional name Nikki Bella and give the longer name Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace. People dates the birth to Nov. 21, 1983, says she was born 16 minutes before her twin sister, Brianna Monique Garcia-Colace, known professionally as Brie Bella, and says the siblings grew up on a family farm in Scottsdale, Arizona. Biography.com independently gives the name Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace, says Nikki is 16 minutes older than Brie, and also records a childhood on a farm in Scottsdale, Arizona, later soccer at San Diego's Grossmont College, and a later move to Los Angeles in 2005. Official WWE pages independently list her hometown as San Diego, California, and say she originally planned to play professional soccer until a leg injury ended that path, then followed her twin sister into WWE.

Career highlights

Official WWE pages say the twins were unsuccessful in the 2006 WWE Raw Diva Search, later landed in FCW, made their way onto the main roster in 2008, each had a Divas Title reign in 2011 and 2012, and that Nikki later earned a Divas Title reign that lasted a record-setting 301 days. Those pages also list her as a WWE Hall of Famer and as a 2013 and 2015 Diva of the Year, and record later reality-series work on Total Divas and Total Bellas. Biography.com independently says she won two Divas titles, that Total Divas began in 2013 and the spinoff Total Bellas in 2016, and that the sisters were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2020. People independently says they were officially signed to WWE as The Bella Twins in 2007, were Divas Champions, and were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in March 2021.

Name notes for searchers

People looking up Nikki Bella or Stephanie Nicole Garcia-Colace are looking for the same wrestler, including the later WWE work most often associated with her name. Search traffic often uses the professional name Nikki Bella in many later professional name lookups of the ring name.