Nicoll
Barely 150 women carry it, and every one is a child of the 2000s: the newborns came in a short run early that decade, then stopped. A feminine spin on Nicholas, from the Greek for "victory of the people," and rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Nicoll Pronunciation
Nicoll is pronounced NYEE-tsoll (/ˈɲit͡sɔll/).
What Nicoll means
Where Nicoll comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nicoll comes from Greek. It joins two old words, nikē, meaning victory, and laos, meaning people. Together they give the sense the name still carries: victory of the people. The same pairing sits inside Nicholas and inside Nike, the Greek goddess of winning, so a sprinter at the tape and a child named Nicoll share one root.
Nicoll is a short written form, doubled l and no closing vowel. In a Polish class register it would sit apart from the Nikola and Mikołaj entries, clipped where they are full.
The meaning looks past any single bearer. It points to a crowd rather than one winner. Greek ears heard ordinary people in laos, neighbours and the wider community. Read the name and the sense stays put: victory belongs to the people, to laos.
How many people are named Nicoll
1 in 149297 women in Poland is named Nicoll. 151 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2647 among female names.
Nicoll's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Nicoll as a middle name
Nicoll is a first name for 151 women in Poland and a middle name for another 32, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1244th, between Mi (32) and Radochna (32).
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#1242 Melita32
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#1243 Mi32
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#1244 Nicoll32
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#1245 Radochna32
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#1246 Rosemarie32