Nicol

Nicol is the 6,618th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,910 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 60,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,910
Rank: 6,618th
How common: 1 in 60,900
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

One of the variant spellings of Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.3%
Black, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Nicol

Steve Nicol (born 1961)Scottish association football player
Lesley Nicol (born 1953)English actress
Jimmie Nicol (born 1939)English drummer
Donald Nicol (1923–2003)British Byzantinist
William Nicol (1770–1851)Scottish geologist and physicist
Julia Nicol (1956–2019)South African LGBT+ activist and librarian
George Nicol (1886–1967)British sprinter
Alex Nicol (1916–2001)actor, film and television director

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

Surnames like Nicol

Also a first name

Nicol has been given to 2,248 American babies as a first name since 1956, peaking in 1970. 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.