The NICOLL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,233	12703	0.001	8
United States (1880 census)	410	11275	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+1823	-1428	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	642	2519	0.004	39
United Kingdom	3,169	1974	0.007	69

Top States for NICOLL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	258	9759	0.001	8
Florida	182	9717	0.001	11
New York	177	10372	0.001	9
Massachusetts	129	6070	0.002	20
Arizona	114	4999	0.002	22
Top States for NICOLL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Hampshire	51	3363	0.004	41
Alaska	22	4048	0.004	35
Arizona	114	4999	0.002	22
Vermont	13	6308	0.002	21
Colorado	90	5880	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of NICOLL

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 NICOLL 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 NICOLL 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 NICOLL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	51	2.28
Mixed Race	20	0.9
Native American/Alaskan	17	0.76
Asian/Pacific	15	0.67
Black/African American	5	0.22
White (Caucasian)	2,125	95.16

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

Similar names to NICOLL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NICOLL.

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.