Nicolle
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nicolle 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 Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: C. J. H., French bacteriologist.
- 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 ●
- #262 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 570 ●
- 1 in 131 ◐
across 12 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
7.1M records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nicole in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia and 18 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●
C. J. H., French bacteriologist
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #64 | 543,303 | 5.8M rec. | 1 in 612 | 543K | Nicole | 570 |
| DE Germany | #49 | 376,460 | 347K rec. | — | 1 | Nicole | 275 |
| AU Australia | #49 | 352,606 | 233K rec. | — | 3 | Nicole | 307 |
| FR France | — | 293,715△ | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 231 | 294K | Nichole | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | #151 | 233,494 | 191K rec. | — | 7 | Nicole | 264 |
| BR Brazil | — | 169,940△ | 6.3K rec. | 1 in 1.2K | 170K | Nicole | 106 |
| CA Canada | #77 | 151,391 | 120K rec. | — | 20 | Nicole | 245 |
| PL Poland | #367 | 79,041△ | 5.9K rec. | 1 in 484 | 79K | Nicole | 101 |
| IT Italy | #104 | 78,595 | 26K rec. | — | 1.6K | Nicole | 162 |
| CZ Czechia | #281 | 75,992△ | 3.2K rec. | 1 in 141 | 76K | Nicole | 92 |
| PH Philippines | #333 | 64,985 | 30K rec. | — | — | Nicole | 154 |
| AT Austria | #57 | 54,588 | 11K rec. | — | 12K | Nicole | 149 |
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●
- Portuguese123K38%
- English70K21%
- Spanish59K18%
- French45K14%
- 3.3K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 122,708 | 38% |
| English | 69,700 | 21% |
| Spanish | 58,567 | 18% |
| French | 45,036 | 14% |
| 3,319 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Nicolle is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, francuski bakteriolog, otkrio prenositelja pjegavog tifusa; Nobelova nagrada za medicinu 1928.
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1962 | 7 |
| 1963 | 14 |
| 1964 | 16 |
| 1965 | 16 |
| 1966 | 45 |
| 1967 | 44 |
| 1968 | 87 |
| 1969 | 161 |
| 1970 | 216 |
| 1971 | 170 |
| 1972 | 190 |
| 1973 | 115 |
| 1974 | 106 |
| 1975 | 156 |
| 1976 | 148 |
| 1977 | 156 |
| 1978 | 152 |
| 1979 | 162 |
| 1980 | 136 |
| 1981 | 127 |
| 1982 | 128 |
| 1983 | 127 |
| 1984 | 119 |
| 1985 | 144 |
| 1986 | 133 |
| 1987 | 148 |
| 1988 | 137 |
| 1989 | 137 |
| 1990 | 150 |
| 1991 | 142 |
| 1992 | 166 |
| 1993 | 131 |
| 1994 | 162 |
| 1995 | 107 |
| 1996 | 112 |
| 1997 | 117 |
| 1998 | 103 |
| 1999 | 91 |
| 2000 | 115 |
| 2001 | 92 |
| 2002 | 77 |
| 2003 | 82 |
| 2004 | 74 |
| 2005 | 68 |
| 2006 | 53 |
| 2007 | 62 |
| 2008 | 71 |
| 2009 | 45 |
| 2010 | 39 |
| 2011 | 44 |
| 2012 | 37 |
| 2013 | 59 |
| 2014 | 47 |
| 2015 | 58 |
| 2016 | 56 |
| 2017 | 44 |
| 2018 | 40 |
| 2019 | 38 |
| 2020 | 37 |
| 2021 | 40 |
| 2022 | 43 |
| 2023 | 54 |
| 2024 | 54 |
| 2025 | 65 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 65 years between 1957–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nicolle Varletb. 1850FRFrench politician
- Yvonne Calmentb. 1898FRnot in their usual namedaughter of Jeanne Calment
- Évelyne Pagèsb. 1942FRnot in their usual nameFrench journalist (1942–2011)
- Nicolle Christiaanseb. 1964NLDutch writer
- Nicolle Wallaceb. 1972USAmerican political commentator, author, and current anchor of Deadline: White House
- Nicolle Pfaffb. 1976DEGerman pedagogue
- Nicolle Flintb. 1978AUAustralian politician
- Nicolle Galyonb. 1984USAmerican country music songwriter and record producer
- Nicolle Martensb. 1997NLDutch association football player
- Nicki PackerAUnot in their usual nameAustralian chemist
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 70 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 13K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 13K | #1,427 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1965 | 11K | #1,062 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6K | #3,470 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.5K | #3,629 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.4K | #1,047 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.1K | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 952 | #2,141 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 780 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 327 | #1,093 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 238 | #7,896 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 224 | #88,925 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 · 483 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nicolle?
- We estimate roughly 1.2 million people bear Nicolle (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nicolle have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 543 thousand people bear Nicolle in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nicole.
- Where is Nicolle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nicolle is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 131 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Nicolle compared with other names?
- In the United States, Nicolle is the 64th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Nicolle a male or female name?
- Nicolle 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 Nicolle mean?
- Recorded meaning: C. J. H., French bacteriologist
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nicolle” — the 64th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.