Given name & surname
Nichols
“of the victorious people”
Nichols is a variant of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nichols is a variant of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Nichols 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 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Nichols 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.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Nichols through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 758
- 758 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 55 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 boys is 5 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 55 in 1987. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,392 as a first name in 2020; 136,692 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.
Nichols’s family of names
Nichols has a related form in Nicholas. In English usage, Nichols as a surname has a related form in NICOLS. In English usage, Nichols as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Νίκολς.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 7
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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