Nicoll
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nicoll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of pNicol.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 30K
- CACanada≈1 in 56K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 284 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Variant spelling of pNicol.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nicoll 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 2K | Nicoll | 193 |
| US United States | 2,503 | 1 in 133K | 2.5K | Nicoll | 284 |
| AU Australia | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | Nicoll | 108 |
| CA Canada | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Nicoll | 112 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 258K | — | Nicoll | 18 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Nicoll | 60 |
| IE Ireland | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Nicoll | 21 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Nicoll 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 English, A surname originating as a patronymic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Matthias Nicollb. 1626GBSecretary of New York, mayor of New York City, judge at the Court of Oyer and Terminer
- John Cochran Nicollb. 1793USUnited States federal judge
- Maurice Nicollb. 1884GBBritish writer (1884–1953)
- Archibald Nicollb. 1886NZNew Zealand artist, art teacher (1886–1953)
- Allardyce Nicollb. 1894GBBritish literary scholar and teacher (1894-1976)
- Henry Nicollb. 1908GBBritish equestrian
- Roger Nicollb. 1941USAmerican neuroscientist
- Ashley Nicoll-Holzerb. 1963CAOlympic medalist in equestrian
- Mercedes Nicollb. 1983CACanadian snowboarder
- Jackson Nicollb. 2003USAmerican actor
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 47 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,421 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,703 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,576 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2K | #3,702 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Nicoll mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling of pNicol. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Nicoll have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Nicoll in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nicoll.
- How common is the name Nicoll?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,503 people named Nicoll in 2010, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nicollThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nicoll”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.