Nicole is a variant of Nicholas. The name means ‘victorious people’ or also ‘victor of the people’. Nikolaus is composed of the Greek words ‘nikē’ for ‘victory’ and ‘láos’ for ‘people’.
Nicole is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Nicole isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Nicole ranks 156. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 12 were named Nicole. In total, there are currently 588,052 people – children, adults and seniors – named Nicole living in the United States, which is approximately 0.18 % of the entire population.
Nicole is a variant of Nicholas. The name means ‘victorious people’ or also ‘victor of the people’. Nikolaus is composed of the Greek words ‘nikē’ for ‘victory’ and ‘láos’ for ‘people’.
In Greek mythology,... the goddess Nike personified victory in any field including art, war, music, and athletics. She is often portrayed with wings.
This was a real surprise! Nicole is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #6 in the year 1982, when 21,791 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter. This made Nicole much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nicole was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Nicole ranked 295 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 992 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Nicole will remain a universally popular name.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Nicole. Because: There are women and girls named Nicole in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Nicole is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Hawaii, where Nicole ranks on place 13. The greatest chance of meeting Nicole, however, is in Nevada, where one in 138 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 262 women and girls and in Mississippi, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,144 women and girls for their name before you once get Nicole as an answer.
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 Nicole 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 Nicole 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 Nicole, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Cat
Orange
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nicole
Nicole
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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C
O
L
E
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.
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O
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E
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. Nicole sounds like this:
