Nicole

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: from French, feminine of Nicolas; 'victory of the people'

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

Nicole is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 333(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 379
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 383

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nicole itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

544,076 people, 2020

#160 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
633 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 333 (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NicoleLatin(measured from records)
НикольCyrillic(measured from records)
ΝικολGreek(measured from records)
นิโคลThai(measured from records)
니콜Hangul(measured from records)
ნიკოლGeorgian(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nichole in FR France and Nicolle in BR Brazil.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

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.

How Nicole is read(measured from records)

Nicole is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English67%

    from French, feminine of Nicolas; 'victory of the people'

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    feminine form of Nicholas; ‘victory of the people’

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  • Spanish8.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Nicole in Spanish.

  • French6.6%

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

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

    Feminine of Nicolas; Greek nikē « victory » + laos « people ».

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

    Female form of Nicolas; Gk. 'victory of the people'.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • German6.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Nicole in German.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nicole counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Nicole is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#69544,0761 in 611543KNicole633
DE Germany#46≈240,000 est.≈1 in 333—Nicole294
BR Brazil—169,9401 in 1.2K170KNicolle104
FR France—≈100,000 est.≈1 in 647294KNichole54
CA Canada#78≈70,000 est.≈1 in 53620Nicole316
AU Australia#50≈66,000 est.≈1 in 3833Nicole325
CH Switzerland#56≈22,000 est.≈1 in 379346Nicole150
AT Austria#73≈21,000 est.≈1 in 41612KNicole156
CZ Czechia#27021,142as Nikol1 in 50621KNicole92

544,076 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; MVČR — living population register 2017; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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 name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

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

  • Spanish given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Chile, Peru

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

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Nicolè, Ni-Cole, Nicôle, Nicolé

  • Hebrew given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic

    Also written ניקול, Nichole, Nicol, Nicolle, Nïcôlë

  • Italian given name17 spellings in the group

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

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

  • Chinese given name3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Chinese, Burmese

    Also written Nîćôlé

  • Indonesian given name4 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(measured from records)

Nicole 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.

  • 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

Attested in 135 sources across 68 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
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
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—4.2K#284
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—2.1K#316
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#197
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025803—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020773#78

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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Nicole come from?
Feminine form of Nicolas, from Greek Nikolaos 'victory of the people'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
What are other forms of the name Nicole?
In the etymology graph, Nicola, Nichole and Nicolasa are forms of the same name in other languages; Nikki, Colette and Coline are recorded short or pet forms.
In which country does Nicole have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 544 thousand people named Nicole, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nicole.
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?
In English, from French, feminine of Nicolas; 'victory of the people'
How common is the name Nicole?
In the United States, the national register counted 544,076 people named Nicole in 2020, about 1 in 611 residents.
How common is Nicole compared with other names?
In the United States, Nicole is the 69th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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 69th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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