Entry № 7435 · French origin

Nicole Nicole — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nih-KOHL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Victory of the people (peaked #6 in 1982; Nicole Kidman)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "victory of the people (peaked #6 in 1982; nicole kidman)".

Nicole is the French feminine of Nicholas — from the Greek nikē (victory) + laos (people).

Victory of the people. Peaked at #6 in 1982; Nicole Mann was the first Native American woman in space.

The name in its native script.

Nicole
Transliteration
Nicole
Pronunciation
/ nɪˈkoʊl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nicole stands.

Nicole does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nicoles before her.

Real people
Nicole Kidman
Australian-American actress.
born 1967
Nicole Mann
First Native American woman in space.
born 1977
Nicole Hannah-Jones
American Pulitzer journalist.
born 1976
In fiction
Nicole Diver
Tender Is the Night.
1934

Names connected to Nicole.

The number behind Nicole.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nicole reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.