Nichol

3,279 people in the United States were counted with the surname Nichol in the 2020 census, making it the 9,484th most common in the country. That is about one person in 91,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,279
Rank: 9,484th
How common: 1 in 91,200
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Nichol described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.3%
Black, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Nichol

William Nichol (1901–1955)British sprinter

People named Nichol with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Nichol

Also a first name

Nichol has been given to 2,922 American babies as a first name since 1944, peaking in 1979. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.