Nichel
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nɪkəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nichel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 188K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 408K
- ESSpain1 in 603K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nichel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 408K | — | Nichel | 6 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | 6 | Nichel | 13 |
| ES Spain | 83 | 1 in 603K | 83 | Nichel | 31 |
| BR Brazil | 45 | 1 in 4.7M | 353 | Nichel | 41 |
| PE Peru | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 896K | — | Nichel | 14 |
| PA Panama | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 944K | — | Nichel | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Nichel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, nickel (chemical element)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, NÍCHEL s. n. Element chimic, metal feromagnetic, alb-cenușiu, lucios, puțin oxidabil, maleabil și ductil, cu numeroase întrebuințări tehnice.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 353 | #23,091 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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
- Is Nichel a male or female name?
- Nichel is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How do you pronounce Nichel?
- A machine transcription gives /nɪkəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nichel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 268 people named Nichel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nichel.
- Where is Nichel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nichel is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 188 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nichel?
- In Spain, the national register counted 83 people named Nichel, about 1 in 603 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nichelThe 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, “Nichel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.