Nickol
Nickol was last recorded in 2013, when 6 babies were given it; 236 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nickol by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nickol?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,004, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1972, the peak
Nickol peaked in 1972, when 24 girls were given it, #2,874 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #16,004 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,607 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,876 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,316 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,631 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,254 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,906 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,086 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,982 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,896 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 9 | #7,202 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,119 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,421 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,182 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,098 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,402 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,378 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,305 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,874 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,248 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,674 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,640 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nickol a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nickol has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nickol: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nickol, and how old are they?
An estimated 223 Americans named Nickol and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 44 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 297 people named Nickol (283 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 227 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Nickol rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Nickol?
Nickol is a less common spelling of Nicol: SSA has recorded 236 Nickol and 2,248 Nicol since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,557 babies since 1880, Nickol is the third most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 27 babies recorded by SSA was a Nickol (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nickol
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nickol and names like it
- Compare Nickol and NicolBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNickol peaked in 1972.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Nickol.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Nickol alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with NMost given first.