Name Awesome

Nikol

#9,290 in 2025Girls' name

From French Nicole; literal meaning unconfirmed

Nikol has been given to 885 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #9,290 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Nikol, 2025

1 in 301,000

Nikol over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nikol: meaning, origin, and history

From French Nicole; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nikol means

Nikol is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nikol is used in Czech.

Nikol comes through French Nicole.

Nikol is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Nikol is pronounced [ˈnɪkol].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 885 girls were recorded with the name Nikol between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1971; its best national rank was #2,051 in 1973.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,087 in 2015 to #9,290 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nikol?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,290
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nikol sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikol. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nikols were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikol was born before 1986 — so the typical Nikol is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
885
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (310).

Is Nikol rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+5,505
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,797
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.5%
Peak was 1971 (40)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,051
1973

Spellings of Nikol

Nikol is not the most common spelling — Nicole is, with 88.0% against Nikol's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nikol is used

Across 1910–2025, Nikol was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 867,117 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nikol has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nikol around the world

Where Nikol ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2006–2012
    #907
    in 2012
  • France
    2012–2025
    #6,365
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2003
    #2,681
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1972–1980
    #440
    in 1980

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nikol by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,290
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,051
1973
Peak year
1971
40 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
885
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Nikol

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

NikkolNikolaNikiyaNikoNikaNikaylaNikkaNikkieNikeaNikkiaNikyaNikeyaNikiaNikieNikkoleNikoleNikiNikkitaNikkoNiketaNikolinaNikishaNikkyNikita

Sibling names for Nikol

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Nikol

Top names of 1971, Nikol's peak yearThe 1970s in fullOther names that peaked in 1973Girls' names starting with NCzech NamesUncommon Czech Girl Names