Nikole
Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry Nikole, yet the name is surfacing again: four newborn girls last year, after long stretches with none. Greek at root, from the words for "victory of the people".
Nikole Pronunciation
Nikole is pronounced nyee-KO-le (/ɲiˈkɔlɛ/).
What Nikole means
Where Nikole comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nikole traces back to Greek. It joins nikē, victory, with laos, the people, so the name reads as victory of the people. The spelling with a k and a final e is one of many shapes the name has taken.
The masculine root, Nikolaos, gave Europe its Nicholas and Poland its Mikołaj. Nikole sits on the feminine side, close cousin to Nikola, the variant a Polish reader will recognise first.
Short and worth saying: the meaning speaks of a crowd rather than one person. Victory of the people. A child named Nikole carries a word that older Greeks used for the result of a battle or a vote, a win that belonged to many.
On a class register in Poland, Nikole stands beside Nikola, one letter apart. The name day and the official form treat them as kin. Whatever else shifts, the Greek stays put: nikē and laos, victory and the people.
How many people are named Nikole
1 in 271612 women in Poland is named Nikole. 83 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3897 among female names.
Nikole's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1121 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where Nikole is most popular
Nikole is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (6 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian6 girls born+510%
Nikole as a middle name
Nikole is a first name for 83 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1630th, between Nicolle (20) and Odeta (20).
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#1628 Mireille20
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#1629 Nicolle20
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#1630 Nikole20
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#1631 Odeta20
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#1632 Orla20