Nichol is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Recently, the name Nichol has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Nichol. That means that a girl named Nichol is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nichol.
Is the name Nichol a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 182 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1972 – at that time, it ranked #731. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Nichol is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Nichol, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nichol was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Nichol born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Nichol born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
You may not know anyone named Nichol, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to women and girls named Nichol. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Nichol living in one state or another. If your name is Nichol and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Nichol relative to the population, you still have to ask 30,736 women and girls their names before you hear Nichol as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Nichol is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Nichol and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nichol, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Cat
Hat
Orange
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nichol
Nichol
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
I
C
H
O
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
N
I
C
H
O
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nichol sounds like this:
