Nichol
Recorded 1944–2014 · United States
Nichol was most popular in 1979, when 195 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,389 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,922 people named Nichol.
Nichol over time
How old is the name Nichol?
Nichol first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1944, which makes it about 81 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 47 of the 82 years since. It was last recorded in 2014.
How many people are named Nichol?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,922 American births named Nichol between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,796 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Nichol in 2025?
Nichol was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Nichol getting more or less popular?
Nichol is out of use. It averaged 6 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Nichol a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Nichol is a girl’s name — 99.2% of the 2,922 Americans given it were girls and 0.8% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Nichol?
Roughly 2,796 Americans named Nichol are alive today — 96% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 47 years old, and half are between 42 and 52. That is a narrow band: Nichol arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Nichol is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org