Nicolle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: C. J. H., French bacteriologist
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɪˈkoʊɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nicolle 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.
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 333as Nicole
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 379as Nicole
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 Nicolle 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)
- #160 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 633 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
544,076 named Nicole, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nicole in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia and 5 more and Nichole in FR France.
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)
C. J. H., French bacteriologist
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nicolle 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #69 | 544,076as Nicole | 1 in 611 | 543K | Nicole | 633 |
| DE Germany | #46 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 333 | — | Nicole | 294 |
| BR Brazil | — | 169,940as Nicole | 1 in 1.2K | 170K | Nicolle | 104 |
| FR France | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 647 | 294K | Nichole | 54 |
| CA Canada | #78 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 536 | 20 | Nicole | 316 |
| AU Australia | #50 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 383 | 3 | Nicole | 325 |
| CH Switzerland | #56 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 379 | 346 | Nicole | 150 |
| AT Austria | #73 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | 12K | Nicole | 156 |
| CZ Czechia | #270 | 21,142as Nikol | 1 in 506 | 21K | Nicole | 92 |
| NL Netherlands | #142 | 1,374 | 1 in 13K | 1.4K | Nicole | 138 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 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 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 182 | #996 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 91 | #1,084 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 65 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 61 | #1,427 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nicolle mean, and where does it come from?
- C. J. H., French bacteriologist Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Nicolle?
- A machine transcription gives /nɪˈkoʊɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- 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.
- In which country does Nicolle 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 is Nicolle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nicolle is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nicolle?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,374 people named Nicolle, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Nicolle compared with other names?
- In the United States, Nicolle is the 69th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nicolle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nicolleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Nicolle” — the 69th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.