Nicole

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Nicole, the feminine form of Nicolas (“Nicholas”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɪˈkəʊl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /nɪˈkoʊl/
• Rhymes: -əʊl

Proper noun

Nicole

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1999, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Acts of Malice, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 26:

     Nicole. They were all named Ashley or Nicole or Ashley Nicole. A sultry temptress of thirteen was after poor innocent Bob who was still a child, although lately his voice had been getting deeper […]

   • 2021 September 24, Tom Gogola, “Republican Representative Lauren Boebert Goes Full Blunderbuss”, in The Nation‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 June 2022, retrieved 1 June 2022:

     She was joined at the New York City fete by fellow Trump throne-sniffer Lee Zeldin, the Long Island congressman who, like Boebert and Staten Island Representative Nicole Malliotakis, were among the cohort of coup supporters who did not vote to certify the 2020 election results—and are now fundraising off a presumptive “Trump’s Majority” in advance of next year’s midterms.

   • 2026 January 8, Michelle Goldberg, “By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 January 2026:

     The killing of Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three and widow of a military veteran, tests that assumption.

Usage notes

• Popular in the end of the 20th century, particularly in the USA.

Related terms

• Nicola
• Nicki, Nikki

Translations

female given name

• Arabic: نيكول
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 妮科爾 / 妮科尔 (Nīkē'ěr)

• Czech: Nikol f, Nikola (cs) f
• Danish: Nicole
• French: Nicole (fr) f
• German: Nicole (de) f
• Polish: Nikola (pl) f
• Russian: Нико́ль (ru) f (Nikólʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: Nikola (sh) f
• Slovak: Nikola f
• Ukrainian: Ніко́ль f (Nikólʹ)

Nicola — see Nicola

See also

• Nicolle

Anagrams

• ceolin, cineol, coelin, coline, enolic

Danish

Etymology

From French Nicole.

Proper noun

Nicole

1. a female given name

French

Etymology

Feminine form of Nicolas (“Nicholas”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.kɔl/

Proper noun

Nicole f

1. a female given name

Related terms

• Colette, Coline, Nicolette, Nicoline

See also

• Nikita

Anagrams

• Coline

German

Etymology

From French Nicole.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /niˈkɔl/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Nicole f (proper noun, genitive Nicoles or (with an article) Nicole)

1. a female given name, masculine equivalent Nikolaus, Nikolas, or Niklas

Alternative forms

• Nicola, Nikola

Swedish

Etymology

From French Nicole.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Nicole c (genitive Nicoles)

1. a female given name

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Nicole.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /niˈkowl/ [n̪ɪˈxoʊ̯l]
• Rhymes: -owl
• Syllabification: Ni‧cole

Proper noun

Nicóle (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜃᜓᜏ᜔ᜎ᜔)

1. a female given name from English