The invention discloses a nanometer nickel cobaltates carbon cloth electrode and a method for preparing the same, and belongs to the field of electrode materials. The nanometer nickel cobaltates carbon cloth electrode and the method have the advantages that nickel cobaltates is loaded on carbon cloth by the aid of hydrothermal processes and electroplating processes to obtain the nanometer nickel cobaltates carbon cloth electrode, the method is simple, stable and controllable, nickel cobaltates nanometer sheet layered structures are prepared by the aid of the hydrothermal processes and the electroplating processes, accordingly, the specific surface areas of electrode materials can be obviously increased, the electron transport speeds can be effectively increased by porous structures, and water electrolysis oxygen evolution reaction overpotential can be lowered; the nanometer nickel cobaltates carbon cloth electrode is prepared by the aid of the method, precious metal materials are replaced with non-precious metal materials, and accordingly the cost can be reduced.