Nicole

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nicole is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Nicolas, from Greek Nikolaos 'victory of the people'.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 131◐
  • CZCzechia1 in 141
  • FRFrance1 in 231

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.2M ●

across 12 countries

#262 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
570 ●

7.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 131 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

NicoleLatin · English●6.9M records
НикольCyrillic · Russian●44K records
ᲜიკოლGeorgian · Georgian●430 records
นิโคลThai · Thai●106 records
ΝικόλGreek · Greek●55 records
니콜Hangul · Korean●8 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nicolle in PE Peru, CO Colombia, AR Argentina and 1 more, Николь in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Nichole in FR France and Ніколь in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Feminine form of Nicolas, from Greek Nikolaos 'victory of the people'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nicole is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#64543,3035.8M rec.1 in 612543KNicole570
DE Germany#49376,460347K rec.—1Nicole275
AU Australia#49352,606233K rec.—3Nicole307
FR France—293,715△1.5K rec.1 in 231294KNichole51
GB United Kingdom#151233,494191K rec.—7Nicole264
BR Brazil—169,940△6.3K rec.1 in 1.2K170KNicole106
CA Canada#77151,391120K rec.—20Nicole245
PL Poland#36779,041△5.9K rec.1 in 48479KNicole101
IT Italy#10478,59526K rec.—1.6KNicole162
CZ Czechia#28175,992△3.2K rec.1 in 14176KNicole92
PH Philippines#33364,98530K rec.——Nicole154
AT Austria#5754,58811K rec.—12KNicole149

Roughly 543K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 612). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English6.9M51%
  • Portuguese1.7M13%
  • French1.5M12%
  • Spanish1.2M9%
  • German718K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English6,865,53951%
Portuguese1,686,63013%
French1,541,30012%
Spanish1,187,0169%
German718,4475%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nicole is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name1.6M records spelled Nicole7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Nicolé, Niçole, Nicôle, Nicole’, Nicole'

  • Spanish given name1.3M records spelled Nicole20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Chile, Peru

    Also written Nicolé, Nícole, Nicöle, Nicol'E, Nïcölë

  • a separate given name563K records spelled Nicole5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Ni-Cole, Nicolè, Nicolé, Nicôle

  • Arabic given name43K records spelled Nicole26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, Egypt, United Kingdom

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written ניקול, Nichole, Nicol, Nicolle, Nicolé

  • Italian given name39K records spelled Nicole17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Nicolè, Nicole', Nicòle, Nicolé, Nìcole

  • Chinese given name32K records spelled Nicole3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Languages: Chinese, Burmese

    Also written Nîćôlé

  • Indonesian given name23K records spelled Nicole4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Nícölé

92 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Nicole is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Feminine of Nicolas; Greek nikē « victory » + laos « people ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, from French, feminine of Nicolas; 'victory of the people'

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In French, Female form of Nicolas; Gk. 'victory of the people'.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, feminine form of Nicholas; ‘victory of the people’

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • French feminine form of Nicholas, now increasingly common in the Englishspeaking world.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

010K20K30K1940196019802000202023K · 1985

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Nicole in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1937–2025
Yearrecords
19379
19387
193912
194025
194131
194270
194389
194458
194561
194680
194766
194868
194968
195089
195193
1952103
1953120
1954110
1955120
1956153
1957141
1958180
1959205
1960243
1961273
1962565
1963655
1964831
1965898
19662,028
19672,776
19683,083
19697,212
197010,691
197110,423
197215,755
197313,922
197413,112
197514,275
197614,453
197715,247
197817,279
197919,510
198019,917
198120,310
198221,706
198322,400
198422,270
198522,966
198621,292
198720,286
198820,315
198919,032
199017,954
199116,046
199216,327
199316,183
199416,011
199512,277
199611,135
199710,744
19989,911
19999,515
20008,563
20017,820
20026,974
20036,238
20045,741
20054,993
20064,322
20073,873
20083,291
20092,770
20102,570
20112,655
20122,661
20133,352
20142,540
20152,116
20161,954
20171,664
20181,429
20191,365
20201,163
2021955
2022996
2023942
2024964
2025803

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 89 years between 1937–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

120014001600180020002200Nicole Oresme, b. 1323Nicole Holofcener, b. 1960Nicole Kidman, b. 1967Anna Nicole Smith, b. 1967Nicole Scherzinger, b. 1978Nikki Bella, b. 1983Ashlee Simpson, b. 1984Kayden Kross, b. 1985Kendall Jenner, b. 1995Maddie Ziegler, b. 2002
  • Nicole Oresmeb. 1323FR14th century French philosopher and bishop
  • Nicole Holofcenerb. 1960USAmerican director and screenwriter
  • Nicole Kidmanb. 1967USAustralian-American actress, producer, and model (born 1967)
  • Anna Nicole Smithb. 1967USAmerican actress and television personality (1967–2007)
  • Nicole Scherzingerb. 1978USAmerican singer and actress (born 1978)
  • Nikki Bellab. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler (born 1983)
  • Ashlee Simpsonb. 1984USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and actress
  • Kayden Krossb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
  • Kendall Jennerb. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican media personality and model (born 1995)
  • Maddie Zieglerb. 2002USnot in their usual nameAmerican dancer and actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 131 sources across 67 countries.

Official registers attesting Nicole
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020543K#78
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024294K#887
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022170K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—169K#197
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—106K#451
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—18K#202
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202417K#124
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202014K—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202412K#237
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—10K#191
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202610K#191
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—8.4K#450

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,721 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nicole?
We estimate roughly 1.2 million people bear Nicole (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Nicole have the most bearers?
We estimate about 543 thousand people bear Nicole in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nicole.
Where is Nicole most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nicole is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 131 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Nicole compared with other names?
In the United States, Nicole is the 64th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Nicole a male or female name?
Nicole is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Nicole mean?
Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Nicolas, from Greek Nikolaos 'victory of the people'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nicole” — the 64th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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