Nicol — #5628 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nicol

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,203 babies named Nicol between 1956 and 2024, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nicol currently holds the #5628 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 125 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nicol performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 808 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Nicol shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 258 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Nicol in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nicol in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,203 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.