Surname statistics for Nichol

There are approximately 4,665 people named Nichol in the UK. That makes it the 2,245th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 74 are named Nichol.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)46652245N/A74
United Kingdom (1881 census)322414020.011108
Change since 1881+1441-843-0.004-34
Other Countries
United States34188826N/A13
Australia5502940N/A34

Top male forenames

John Nichol
David Nichol
Robert Nichol
Andrew Nichol
James Nichol
Stuart Nichol
Paul Nichol
Michael Nichol
Colin Nichol
Stephen Nichol
Keith Nichol
Mark Nichol
Anthony Nichol
Ian Nichol
Peter Nichol
Christopher Nichol
Richard Nichol
Graham Nichol
Barry Nichol
Brian Nichol

Top female forenames

Julie Nichol
Elizabeth Nichol
Claire Nichol
Heidi Nichol
Christine Nichol
Sarah Nichol
Susan Nichol
Joan Nichol
Juliana Nichol
Valerie Nichol
Laura Nichol
Lesley Nichol
Sandra Nichol
Frances Nichol
Gaynor Nichol
Rebecca Nichol
Sally Nichol
Caroline Nichol
Barbara Nichol
Sheila Nichol

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.