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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.