Nicholl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nicholl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 335K
- SESweden1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
993 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nicholl 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 | 993 | 1 in 335K | 1.2K | Nicholl | 29 |
| ES Spain | 14 | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | Nicholl | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 1 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
993 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 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)
Nicholl 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 German, from Nicolaus
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Variant spelling of Nichol. = NINIAN
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)
- John Nichollb. 1759GBBritish politician
- Whitlock Nicollb. 1786GBnot in their usual nameBritish doctor
- John Iltyd Nichollb. 1797GBWelsh politician and MP for Cardiff (1797-1853)
- Edward Nichollb. 1862GBBritish officer of the Royal Naval Reserve and Conservative Member of Parliament (1862-1939)
- Charles Nichollb. 1870GBWelsh rugby union player
- Tony Nichollb. 1916MTMaltese association football player (1916-1999)
- Chris Nichollb. 1946GBNorthern Irish footballer and manager (born 1946)
- Charles Nichollb. 1950GBBritish historian and writer
- Jimmy Nichollb. 1956GBNorthern Irish footballer and manager (born 1956)
- David Nichollb. 2000GBNorthern Irish doctor
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,840 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 993 | #25,020 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #55,105 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #140,367 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- 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 Nicholl mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname originating as a patronymic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nicholl have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 993 people named Nicholl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nicholl.
- Where is Nicholl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nicholl is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nicholl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 993 people named Nicholl in 2010, about 1 in 335 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nichollThe 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, “Nicholl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.