Nicoli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Nikolis, pet form of Nikolaos (see Nicholas)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/niˈkoʊɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nicoli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 106K
- ARArgentina1 in 109K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from the personal name Nikolis, pet form of Nikolaos (see Nicholas).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nicoli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | Nicoli | 103 |
| BR Brazil | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 106K | 22K | Nicoli | 102 |
| FR France | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 154 | Nicoli | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 419 | 1 in 109K | 419 | Nicoli | 41 |
| US United States | 320 | 1 in 1M | 562 | Nicoli | 64 |
| UY Uruguay | 246 | 1 in 14K | 246 | Nicoli | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | 244 | 1 in 34K | 244 | Nicoli | 26 |
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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Nicoli 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 Italian, forma reduzida de Nicolai.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, var. toscana de Nicoli.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Carlo Nicolib. 1843ITItalian sculptor (1843-1915)
- Giuseppina Nicolib. 1863ITItalian beatified nun (1863-1924)
- Jean Nicolib. 1899FRFrench politician (1899-1943)
- Eric Nicolib. 1950GBBritish businessman
- Aldo Nicolib. 1953ITItalian footballer and manager
- Alcino José Nicolib. 1954BRBrazilian politician
- Vincenzo Nicolib. 1958GBBritish actor
- Stephane Nicolib. 1975USAmerican actor
- Hermann Nicolib. 1982BRBrazilian model
- Rebecca Nicolib. 1999ITItalian boxer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.6K | #3,917 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 562 | #41,707 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 444 | #45,403 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 419 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 320 | #62,531 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 246 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 244 | #5,284 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 206 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 154 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Nicoli mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Nikolis, pet form of Nikolaos (see Nicholas). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nicoli?
- A machine transcription gives /niˈkoʊɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nicoli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Nicoli in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nicoli.
- Where is Nicoli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nicoli is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nicoli?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 419 people named Nicoli, about 1 in 109 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/nicoliThe 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, “Nicoli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.