Surname statistics for Nicol

There are approximately 12,057 people named Nicol in the UK. That makes it the 847th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 191 are named Nicol.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12057847N/A191
United Kingdom (1881 census)62346960.021208
Change since 1881+5823-151-0.002-17
Other Countries
United States48506454N/A18
Australia1873874N/A115

Politics

People with the surname Nicol are about as likely to be politicians as the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Nicol are:

  1. Conservative (2)
  2. Liberal Democrat (2)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Nicol
John Nicol
James Nicol
Ian Nicol
Andrew Nicol
William Nicol
Alexander Nicol
Robert Nicol
Stuart Nicol
Peter Nicol
George Nicol
Colin Nicol
Thomas Nicol
Mark Nicol
Stephen Nicol
Alan Nicol
Richard Nicol
Paul Nicol
Craig Nicol
Gary Nicol

Top female forenames

Margaret Nicol
Elizabeth Nicol
Mary Nicol
Linda Nicol
Claire Nicol
Angela Nicol
Catherine Nicol
Susan Nicol
Louise Nicol
Ann Nicol
Deborah Nicol
Karen Nicol
Sarah Nicol
Lisa Nicol
Gillian Nicol
Heather Nicol
Helen Nicol
Jacqueline Nicol
Jennifer Nicol
Amanda Nicol

Notes

  • 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.