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The NICOL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,850 6454 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 768 6812 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +4082 +358 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 1,873 874 0.011 115
United Kingdom 7,781 795 0.017 169
Top States for NICOL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 517 5473 0.002 15
Ohio 480 2915 0.004 42
Florida 330 5978 0.002 21
Michigan 291 4121 0.003 29
Texas 265 7157 0.001 13
Top States for NICOL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 42 1465 0.009 85
Utah 141 2097 0.006 63
New Hampshire 65 2848 0.005 53
Ohio 480 2915 0.004 42
Montana 38 3476 0.004 42

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NICOL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NICOL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NICOL in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NICOL by picking someone at random in Wyoming than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NICOL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NICOL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NICOL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NICOL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 138 2.85
White (Hispanic) 100 2.06
Mixed Race 81 1.67
Native American/Alaskan 37 0.76
Asian/Pacific 35 0.72
White (Caucasian) 4,459 91.94

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NICOL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of NICOL in historical publications

NICOL. 1. The patriarch of the Nicols, Macnicols, and Nicolsons, was Mackrj'cul or Gregall, lord of Assint, co. Sutherland, who flourished in the XII. cent. Skene thinks the clan Nicail of Gaelic origin. ii. 298. 2. See Nicholas.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to NICOL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICOL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NICOL

The following words are slight variants of NICOL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.