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Nicol

Greek at root, a form of the name meaning "victory of the people". It had its run in the 2000s and is fading now: a rare choice today, given to only a handful of girls a year.

Nicol Pronunciation

Nicol is pronounced NYEE-tsol (/ˈɲit͡sɔl/).

Alive in 2025
1,315
Newborns 2025
7
National rank
#846

What Nicol means

Where Nicol comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Nicol reaches back to the Greek Nikolaos, a compound of nike, victory, and laos, the people. Read together, the parts give the short meaning: victory of the people. The name traveled west through the cult of Saint Nicholas of Myra, and from that root it split into a family of forms still heard in Poland today.

Among its relatives are Nikola and Nicola, close in sound and shared origin. Nicole arrived later, dressed in French spelling, and most Polish parents know it from an official document. Each keeps the same Greek core.

Nicol is short. That brevity is part of its appeal. On a school class register it sits among longer entries without strain, a single clipped word doing the work of the older Nikolaos. The victory in the name belongs to a whole people, laos, the crowd folded into the short meaning: victory of the people.

How many people are named Nicol

1 in 17222 women in Poland is named Nicol. 1,315 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #846 among female names.

People with the name Nicol 2019 → 2025
1,315 +107 since 2019
2020 1,213 +5
2021 1,229 +16
2022 1,241 +12
2023 1,280 +39
2024 1,297 +17
2025 1,315 +18

Nicol's popularity over time

7 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #828 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2019.

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7 newborns with the name Nicol in 2025
national rank #828 that year

Where parents choose Nicol

Nicol is most popular in Lower Silesian, 267% above the national average (8 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+213%) and Greater Poland (+168%). It is least common in Masovian and Silesian, 59% and 37% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Lower Silesian
    +267%
    1 in 19,642 babies
  • Opole
    +213%
    1 in 23,048 babies
  • Greater Poland
    +168%
    1 in 26,905 babies
Chosen least
  • Masovian
    −59%
    1 in 177,133 babies
  • Silesian
    −37%
    1 in 113,792 babies
  • Pomeranian
    −2%
    1 in 73,661 babies

Nicol as a middle name

Nicol is a first name for 1,315 women in Poland and a middle name for another 285, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 400th, between Dżesika (285) and Nikol (284).

As a first name
1,315
As a middle name
285
first name 82% middle name 18%
Middle-name ranking women

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