Nikol
Given to fewer and fewer girls through the 2010s, then it turned around: more newborns carried it last year than in that whole quiet stretch. Greek at root, meaning "victory of the people", and in Poland it stays a girls-only name that most people have never actually met.
Nikol Pronunciation
Nikol is pronounced NYEE-kol (/ˈɲikɔl/).
What Nikol means
Where Nikol comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nikol reaches Polish from Greek. Two old words sit inside it: nikē, victory, and laos, the people. Read together they mean victory of the people, in Polish zwycięstwo ludu.
The name travels in a small family. Nikoleta stretches it into a longer, more formal shape, while the diminutive Nika trims it to a single bright syllable. On a class register a Nika and a Nikoleta can turn out to be the same girl, depending on which form the teacher wrote down.
The victory root, nikē, also stands behind the Greek goddess Nike and behind the masculine Nikodem, whose source Nikodemos likewise means victory of the people. So Nikol keeps company with old winners. The word it hands its bearer stays plain: zwycięstwo ludu, victory of the people.
How many people are named Nikol
1 in 7500 women in Poland is named Nikol. 3,021 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #588 among female names.
Nikol's popularity over time
79 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #273 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2017.
Where Nikol is most popular
Nikol is most popular in Lubusz, 89% above the national average (15 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+77%) and West Pomeranian (+63%). It is least common in Lublin and Lesser Poland, 76% and 28% below average respectively.
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Lubusz15 girls born+89%
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Opole13 girls born+77%
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West Pomeranian22 girls born+63%
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Łódź29 girls born+43%
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Lower Silesian35 girls born+40%
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Silesian48 girls born+32%
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Masovian73 girls born+29%
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Greater Poland43 girls born+25%
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Pomeranian23 girls born−2%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian14 girls born−20%
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Lesser Poland26 girls born−28%
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Lublin4 girls born−76%
Nikol as a middle name
Nikol is a first name for 3,021 women in Poland and a middle name for another 284, a 91/9 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 401st, between Nicol (285) and Roberta (284).
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399
285Dżesika
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400
285Nicol
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401284Nikol
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402
284Roberta
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403
284Wincentyna