Meaning not yet researched.
Nicol: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,006 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,006 in 1970; #7,052 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nicol in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,052 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #1,006.
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Nicol: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,006 in 1970 · most girls in one year: 125 (1970).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Nicol, making it the 7,052nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,309 places from #5,743 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 22 girls named Nicol in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,006, reached in 1970. That year also had the most girls given the name: 125. For comparison, it was #5,980 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nicol in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 2,248 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 826 babies named Nicol.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 176 US girls were named Nicol; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nicole (596,465 babies since 1880), Nicola (8,090 babies since 1880), Nichol (2,922 babies since 1880) and Nikole (6,982 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nicol in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,052 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,743 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,963 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,929 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,345 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,852 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,623 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,659 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,772 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,512 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,980 | — | — |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,423 | — | — |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,686 | — | — |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,675 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,052 | — | — |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,498 | — | — |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,240 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,654 | — | — |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,655 | — | — |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,557 | — | — |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,500 | — | — |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,708 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,174 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,958 | — | — |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,273 | — | — |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,594 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,177 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,708 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,174 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,557 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,940 | — | — |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,806 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,603 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,046 | — | — |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,227 | — | — |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,844 | — | — |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,061 | — | — |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,275 | — | — |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,640 | — | — |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1977 | 53 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 1976 | 68 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 1974 | 87 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1973 | 89 | #1,210 | 7 | #4,373 |
| 1972 | 114 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1971 | 102 | #1,143 | 6 | #4,756 |
| 1970 | 125 | #1,006 | 5 | #5,230 |
| 1969 | 107 | #1,061 | 5 | #4,830 |
| 1968 | 52 | #1,602 | 5 | #4,561 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,128 | — | — |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,458 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,691 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,623 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).