Given name & surname
Nichol
“of the victorious people”
Nichol is a variant of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nichol is a variant of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Nichol is a variant of Nicholas. An origin associated with Nicholas is Dutch.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1944. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Nichol is a variant of Nicholas. The history of Nicholas gives this family its wider story. Nicholas’s Christian associations include Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop of Myra in Lycia, about whom virtually nothing factual is known. Nichol is a variant of Nicol. The history of Nicol gives this family its wider story. Walter Scott used Nicol for Bailie Nicol Jarvie in Rob Roy. The character provides a literary link with a form of Nicholas that remained in Scottish use after its medieval beginnings.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Nichol through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,922
- 22 boys · 2,900 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 195 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 195 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,979 as a first name in 2020; 3,279 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nichol’s family of names
Nichol has a related form in Nicholas. Nichol has a related form in Nicole. In English usage, Nichol has a conventional equivalent in the German form Nicole.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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