Given name
Nicoline
“of the victorious people”
In French use, Nicoline is a variant of Nicole. In Greek use, Nicole carries the interpretation “of the victorious people.”
Original FrenchNicolas
Meaning & origin
What it means
In French use, Nicoline is a variant of Nicole. In Greek use, Nicole carries the interpretation “of the victorious people.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In French usage, Nicoline is a diminutive of Nicolas.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nicoline through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 0 boys · 28 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 7 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 5 in 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 219 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nicoline’s family of names
In French usage, Nicoline is a diminutive of Nicolas. In French usage, Nicoline has a related form in Nicole. In Danish usage, Nicoline has a conventional equivalent in the German form Nicole.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nicoline
- Nini Roll AnkerNorwegian novelist/playwright (1873-1942)
- Nicoline SørensenDanish association football playerborn 1997
- Nicoline WeywadtPioneering Icelandic photographer (1848-1921)
- Nicoline van der SijsDutch linguistborn 1955
- Nicoline TuxenDanish painter (1847-1931)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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