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 [ 2 syll. ni-co-le, nic-ole ] The boy name Nicole is also used as a girl name, with the latter form being much more common. Its pronunciation is NihKOWL KEY. Nicole is a French name of Old Greek origin. Nicole is a variant of the name Nicholas (English and French). Nicole is uncommon as a baby name for boys. At the modest height of its usage in 1989, 0.005% of baby boys were given the name Nicole. Its ranking then was #990. The baby name has since experienced a loss in popularity, and is currently of sporadic use. Within the group of boy names directly linked to Nicole, Nicholas (English and French) was the most regularly used in 2008. Nicole has in the past century been predominantly given to girls. In 1989, Nicole as a girl name outnumbered its use as a boy name by 187 times. Baby names that sound like Nicole include Nichol (English), Nichole (English), Nicol (English and Scottish), Nigel (English and Spanish), Niguel (Spanish), Nikhil (English and Indian), Neacal (Scottish), Niccolo (Italian), Niccolò (Italian), Nicola (German and Italian), Nicolae (Romanian), Nicolai (Russian and Scandinavian), Nicolao (Spanish), Nicolau (Catalan and Portuguese), Nicolo (Italian), Nicolò (Italian), Nikola (Hungarian and Slavic), Nikolai (Estonian and Russian), Nikolais (Latvian), and Nikolaj (Russian). KEY: English pronunciation for Nicole: N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"   |
