• 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.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there 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!

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 UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

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.

The most likely matches are shown first.

NICOLL
NICELY
NAGLE
NICHOL
NICOL
NICHOLL
NANGLE
NICOLA
NICOLO
NICOLI
NICKOL
NICOLE
NICKL
NACOL
NUGAL
NICOLAU
NICKLE
NICOLAI
NICOLAY
NOGLE
NOGGLE
NIKULA
NIKOLAI
NIKKEL
NIGLIO
NIGL
NICOLS
NICOLIA
NICKELL
NICKEL
NYKIEL
NEGLIA
NICCOLI
NEAGLE
NAUGLE
NAEGLE
NEKOLA
NEGLIO
NAEGELI
NISKALA
NAGEL
NISLEY
NISLY
NISSILA
NAGELE
NISSLEY
NUXOLL
NUESSLE
NOSEL
NOSAL

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

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

NIOCL NCIOL INCOL NICO NICOA NICOLA NICOLE NICOLI NICOLO