Nicole is a feminine given name

Given name

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 and a surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

.

The given name Nicole is of Greek origin and means "victorious people". It's evolved into a French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 feminine derivative of the masculine

Masculine

Masculine or masculinity, normally refer to qualities positively associated with men.Masculine may also refer to:*Masculine , a grammatical gender*Masculine cadence, a final chord occurring on a strong beat in music...

 given name Nicholas

Nicholas

Nicholas or Nikolas is a male given name, derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος , a combination of the words for "victory" and "people" . The name can be understood to mean victory of the people or "power of the people"...

. There are many variants.

The surname Nicole originates in Holland

Dutch people

The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...

 where it was notable for its various branches, and associated status or influence. There are several variants of the family name.

Nicole can also be spelled as Nichole.

People with the given name Nicole or variants

In music:

• Nicole (German singer), known for "Ein bißchen Frieden"
• Nicole (Chilean singer), pop and rock singer
• Nicole Cabell
  Nicole Cabell
  Nicole Cabell , is an American opera singer. She is presently best known as the 2005 winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition....
  
  , classical and opera singer
• Nicole Jung
  Nicole Jung
  Nicole Jung , better known mononymously as Nicole, born on October 7, 1991, is an Korean-American idol singer, and rapper. She was raised in Glendale, California but she moved to Seoul, South Korea...
  
  , Korean American singer, member of the band Kara
• Nicole C. Mullen
  Nicole C. Mullen
  Aileen Nicole Coleman-Mullen, known professionally as Nicole C. Mullen, is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and choreographer. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.-Music career:...
  
  , award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and choreographer
• Nicole Scherzinger
  Nicole Scherzinger
  Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, model, and actress. Scherzinger is perhaps best known for being the lead vocalist of the Pussycat Dolls....
  
  , American pop/R&B/hip hop singer-songwriter, dancer, member of the Pussycat Dolls
• Nicole Wray
  Nicole Wray
  Nicole Monique Wray, also known as simply Nicole, is an American R&B and hip hop singer. Her 1998 debut single, "Make It Hot"—written and produced by Timbaland and co-written by and featuring Missy Elliott—was certified gold.-Musical career:...
  
  , American R&B singer

In literature:

• Nicole Brossard
  Nicole Brossard
  Nicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
  
  , leading French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist
• Nicole Markotic
  Nicole Markotic
  Nicole Markotic is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Windsor, Ontario. She teaches creative writing at the University of Windsor. Markotic specializes in the subjects of Canadian Literature, Poetry, Children's Literature, Disability in Film and Disability in Literature; she is currently...
  
  , Canadian poet and novelist

In television and film:

• Nicole Anderson
  Nicole Anderson
  Nicole Gale Anderson is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Macy Misa in the Disney Channel Original Series JONAS L.A., and also known for the role of Kelly Parker on the ABC Family series Make It or Break It...
  
  , American actress
• Nicole de Boer
  Nicole de Boer
  Nicole de Boer is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Ezri Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from 1998 to 1999 and as Sarah Bannerman on The Dead Zone from 2002 to 2007.-Career:...
  
  , Canadian actress
• Nicole Eggert
  Nicole Eggert
  Nicole Elizabeth Eggert is an American actress. Notable roles include Jamie Powell in the television series Charles in Charge and Summer Quinn in the TV Series Baywatch. She was most recently a contestant on the VH1 reality show Celebrity Fit Club.-Early life:Eggert was born in Glendale,...
  
  , actress
• Nicole Holofcener
  Nicole Holofcener
  Nicole Holofcener is an American film and television director. She has directed four feature films, most recently Please Give.-Career:...
  
  , film and television director
• Nicole Kidman
  Nicole Kidman
  Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...
  
  , Academy Award-winning actress and singer
• Nicole Oring
  Nicole Oring
  __notoc__Nicole Oring is an American soft-core pornographic actress, nude model, and business owner of Korean descent...
  
  , adult model and actress
• Nicole Parker
  Nicole Parker
  Nicole Frances Parker is an Emmy Award-winning actress and singer best known for her work on Fox's sketch comedy show MADtv. In July 2009, she concluded her run as Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked...
  
  , American actress
• Nicole Polizzi
  Nicole Polizzi
  Nicole Elizabeth "Snooki" Polizzi is an American reality television personality who appeared on the MTV reality show Jersey Shore starting in 2009.- Early life :Polizzi was born in Santiago, Chile...
  
  , American reality television star
• Nicole Sheridan
  Nicole Sheridan
  Nicole Sheridan is an American pornographic film actress. She often appears on-screen with her husband Voodoo.- Awards :*2002 AVN Best Anal Sex Scene – Film for Taboo 2001 : A Sex Odyssey...
  
  , American pornographic film actress
• Nicole Sullivan
  Nicole Sullivan
  Nicole Julianne Sullivan is an American actress, comedian and voice artist. Sullivan is best known for her six seasons on the sketch comedy series MADtv and five seasons on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens.She has played a recurring character on Scrubs and voices the villainous Shego in...
  
  , American actress, voice actress, comedian and occasional professional poker player
• Nicole Tubiola
  Nicole Tubiola
  Nicole Tubiola is an American actress. She is known for her role as Danielle "Dani" Davis on Wildfire .-Private life:She grew up in Bullhead City, Arizona and graduated in 1997 at Mohave High School...
  
  , American actress
• Nicol Williamson
  Nicol Williamson
  Nicol Williamson is a Scottish-born English actor who was described by English playwright John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando".-Early life:...
  
  , British actor

In modelling:

• Nicole Linkletter
  Nicole Linkletter
  Nicole Linkletter is an American fashion model, winner of Cycle 5 of America's Next Top Model.-America's Next Top Model:Linkletter appeared in Cycle 5 of the show after auditioning for the show at the Mall of America...
  
  , model, winner of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 5
• Nicole Narain
  Nicole Narain
  -Career:She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in January 2002 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos.She has appeared in music videos like R.L's song "Got Me a Model", LL Cool J's "Luv You Better", Mario Winans's "I Don't Wanna Know" and Fabolous' "Baby"...
  
  , model
• Nicole Renee Taylor, also known as Niki Taylor
  Niki Taylor
  Nicole Renee "Niki" Taylor is an American model.-Early life:Taylor was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Ken and Barbara Taylor, a highway patrol lieutenant and a photographer, respectively. She was raised in Pembroke Pines, Florida, and attended Cooper City High School...
  
  , American model
• Nicole Trunfio
  Nicole Trunfio
  Nicole Trunfio is an Australian model from Merredin, a small country town in Western Australia.-Personal life:Trunfio is the youngest girl in a family of four children. She attended St. Mary's Primary School in Merredin...
  
  , model
• Nicole Whitehead, model
• Nicole Fox
  Nicole Fox
  Nicole Fox is an American artist and fashion model, best known as the winner of Cycle 13 of America's Next Top Model.-Biography:...
  
  , model, winner of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 13

In sport:

• Nicole Arendt
  Nicole Arendt
  Nicole J. Arendt is an American professional tennis player. Arendt won sixteen doubles titles in her career. The left-hander reached her highest singles ranking on the WTA Tour on June 16, 1997, when she was ranked forty-ninth in the world...
  
  , American tennis player
• Nicole Bradtke
  Nicole Bradtke
  Nicole Bradtke is a retired professional tennis player from Australia.Bradtke won three singles and nine doubles on the WTA Tour in her career. She reached the semifinals of the 1988 French Open, and won a bronze medal in doubles at the 1992 Summer Olympics, partnering Rachel McQuillan...
  
  , Australian former tennis player
• Nicole Cooke
  Nicole Cooke
  Nicole Denise Cooke, MBE is a Welsh professional road bicycle racer for the Mario Cipollini - Giordana Team team, and is the current Olympic road race champion.-Early life:...
  
  , British cyclist
• Nicole Davis
  Nicole Davis
  Nicole Marie Davis is an American indoor volleyball player. She is 5'6" and plays at the libero position. She played for Fenerbahçe Women's Volleyball Team for the 2007 season and wore the number 1 jersey. She was the first foreign-born libero to play in the Turkish league and led her team to a...
  
  , American volleyball player
• Nicole Freedman
  Nicole Freedman
  Nicole Freedman is an American Olympic cyclist.Freedman, who is Jewish, was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She attended MIT, and then Stanford University. Among the teams she has competed on are Shaklee , Charles Schwab , Credit Suisse First Boston , RONA , and Basis .In 1997, she was a US...
  
   (born 1972), American Olympic cyclist
• Nicole Haynes
  Nicole Haynes
  Nicole Haynes is a retired female track and field athlete from the United States, who competed in the heptathlon. In 1999, employed as a teacher for the LAUSD, Haynes had her best year when she set a personal record, won the bronze medal at the Pan American Games and was third at the U.S. Outdoor...
  
  , Canadian-American athlete
• Nicole Hetzer
  Nicole Hetzer
  Nicole Hetzer is a retired female medley swimmer from Germany. She competed twice for her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004. Hetzer collected several medals at international tournaments in the late 1990s and early 2000s, especially in the short course .-References:*...
  
  , German swimmer
• Nicole Livingstone
  Nicole Livingstone
  Nicole Dawn Livingstone OAM is a retired Australian Olympic swimmer and a television sports commentator and radio presenter. Livingstone competed for Australia in three summer Olympics - 1988, 1992, and 1996 - winning both individual and team medals...
  
  , Australian swimmer
• Nicole Muns-Jagerman
  Nicole Muns-Jagerman
  Nicole Muns-Jagerman is a retired tennis player from the Netherlands.Muns-Jagerman represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. As a pro, she reached her career-high singles on 14 May 1990, when she became World number 43.-References:...
  
  , Dutch tennis player
• Nicole Powell
  Nicole Powell
  Nicole Kristen Powell is a basketball player who was a standout at Stanford University and now plays for the New York Liberty in the WNBA...
  
  , American basketball player
• Nicole Pratt
  Nicole Pratt
  Nicole Pratt is a retired professional female tennis player from Australia.She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior player. She attended school in Calen and received a tennis scholarship to the Australian...
  
  , Bradtke's Australian compatriot and former tennis player
• Nicole Raczynski
  Nicole Raczynski
  Nicole Raczynski is an American professional wrestler, best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Roxxi...
  
  , American professional wrestler
• Nicole Schnyder-Benoit
  Nicole Schnyder-Benoit
  Nicole Schnyder-Benoit is a retired professional beach volleyball player from Switzerland, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...
  
  , Swiss beach volleyball player
• Nicole Vaidišová
  Nicole Vaidišová
  Nicole Vaidišová is a retired Czech tennis player.Vaidišová was an Australian Open and French Open semifinalist and also reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. Vaidišová started playing tennis when she was six years old, enrolling to train at Nick Bollettieri's tennis academy in Bradenton,...
  
  , Czech tennis player

In other notables:

• Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine
• Nicole Brown Simpson
  Nicole Brown Simpson
  Nicole Brown Simpson was a former wife of professional football player O. J. Simpson.- Relationship with O. J. Simpson :...
  
  , O. J. Simpson's murdered ex-wife
• Nicole Fontaine
  Nicole Fontaine
  Nicole Fontaine is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, part of the European People's Party...
  
  , French politician and Member of the European Parliament
• Nicole-Reine Lepaute
  Nicole-Reine Lepaute
  Nicole-Reine Lepaute, née Étable , was a French astronomer and mathematician. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars...
  
  , French astronomer
• Nicole Miller
  Nicole Miller
  Nicole Miller is an American fashion designer, businesswoman, mother and wife who was born in Texas and raised in Lenox, Massachusetts.Miller attended the Rhode Island School of Design where she earned a BFA in Apparel Design...
  
  , fashion designer
• Nicole Richie
  Nicole Richie
  Nicole Camille Richie is an American fashion designer, author, actress, singer and television personality. Her father was Peter Michael Escovedo, a musician who played for a brief time with Lionel Richie, and her mother Karen was the executive assistant for Sheila Escovedo...
  
  , socialite and reality television star
• Nicole Wong
  Nicole Wong
  Nicole Wong is the vice president and deputy general counsel at Google and is responsible for arbitrating issues of censorship for Google.-Biography:Nicole Wong is responsible for Google’s product and regulatory matters...
  
  , vice president and deputy general counsel at Google

Fictional characters

• Nicole, played by Estelle Skornik
  Estelle Skornik
  Estelle Skornik is a French actress.In the United Kingdom she is best remembered for playing "Nicole" alongside Max Douchin in a range of Renault Clio advertisements that at one point also featured the comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.She also starred as "Ada" in the film version of From...
  
   in television advertisements for Renault cars.
• NICOLE, sentient, hand-held computer in the Sonic the Hedgehog
  Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series)
  Sonic the Hedgehog: The Animated Series is an American animated series produced by DIC Entertainment with the partnership of Sega of America and was based on the Sonic the...
  
  television series and comic books.
• Nicole (Dead or Alive character).
• Nico Collard, Broken Sword games
• Nicole Maris, a character in the 1999 film Drive Me Crazy
  Drive Me Crazy
  -Tracklisting:# " Crazy " - Britney Spears# "Unforgetful You" - Jars of Clay# "I Want It That Way " - Backstreet Boys# "It's All Been Done" - Barenaked Ladies# "Stranded" - Plumb...
  
  
• Nicole des Jardins Wakefield
  Nicole des Jardins Wakefield
  Nicole des Jardins Wakefield is a fictional character and the central protagonist of the three sequels to Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. She is an African-European woman, of heritage from both France and the Ivory Coast...
  
  , in the sequels to Rendezvous with Rama
• Nicole Bristow, a character in the Nickelodeon show Zoey 101
• Nicole Wallace, a character on Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama...
  
   played by actress Olivia d'Abo
  Olivia d'Abo
  Olivia d'Abo is an English actress and singer-songwriter, best known for portraying Karen Arnold in The Wonder Years and Nicole Wallace, the recurring villain in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Acting career:...
  
  .
• Nicole Walker
  Nicole Walker
  Nicole DiMera is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera, Days of our Lives, a long running series about working-class life in the fictional town of Salem. She was introduced in 1998 by head writer Sally Sussman Morina, and executive producer Ken Corday...
  
  , a character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives
• Nikki Newman, a character on the America soap opera The Young and the Restless
• Nicole "Niki" Smith, an alternate personality of the character Victoria Lord Banks on the American soap opera One Life to Live
• Nicole Watterson a character from the 2011 program The Amazing World of Gumball
  The Amazing World of Gumball
  The Amazing World of Gumball is a British/American animated television series created by Ben Bocquelet. It first aired on May 2, 2011 in the United Kingdom as a sneak preview and officially premiered on September 5, 2011. It premiered a week later on May 9, 2011 in the United States on Cartoon...
  
  

See also

• Miklós
  Miklos
  Miklós is a given name or surname, the Hungarian form of the Greek Νικόλαος , and may refer to:-In Hungarian politics:* Miklós Bánffy, Hungarian nobleman, politician, and novelist...
  
  
• Mikołaj
• Mikuláš (disambiguation)
• Nic
  Nic
  Nic is a male given name, often short for Nicholas or Dominic. It may refer to:-Music:* Nic Harcourt, the current Music Director for Santa Monica, California-based radio station KCRW...
  
  
• Niccolò
  Niccolò
  Niccolò is an Italian male given name, a variation of Nicola. It may refer to:In literature:* Niccolò Ammaniti, Italian writer* Niccolò Machiavelli, political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright...
  
  
• Nicholas
  Nicholas
  Nicholas or Nikolas is a male given name, derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος , a combination of the words for "victory" and "people" . The name can be understood to mean victory of the people or "power of the people"...
  
  
• Nichole
• Nicholle
• Nick (disambiguation)
• Nicki
  Nicki
  Nicki is a given name, and may refer to:In film and television:* Nicki Aycox, American actress best known for her roles as Syl on the series Dark Angel and Stella Vessey on the dramedy Ed...
  
  
• Nickie
• Nicky
  Nicky
  Nicky is a diminutive form of the name Nicholas, occasionally used as a given name in its own right. It may refer to:In pop culture:* Nicky Hilton, American and fashion designer, sister of Paris HiltonIn sports:...
  
  
• Nicola (disambiguation)
• Nicolae (disambiguation)
  Nicolae (disambiguation)
  Nicolae may refer to:* the Romanian male name Nicolae* Nicolae, the third book in the Left Behind series...
  
  
• Nicolai (disambiguation)
• Nicolas (disambiguation)
• Nicolau
  Nicolau
  Nicolau may refer to:*Nicolau * Nicolau Coelho, Portuguese explorer* Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, East-Timorese politician and national hero* Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida, the foremost Portuguese satirical poet of the 18th century...
  
  
• Nicolaus
  Nicolaus
  Nicolaus is a masculine given name. It is a German form of Nicholas. Nicolaus may refer to:In science:* Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer who provided the first modern formulation of a heliocentric theory of the solar systemIn mathematics:...
  
  
• Nicoletta
  Nicoletta
  Nicoletta or Nicoleta may refer to:* Nicoleta Alexandru, singer who represented Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003* Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress* Nicoleta Grasu, Romanian discus thrower* Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast...
  
  
• Nicolette (disambiguation)
• Nicolle
  Nicolle
  Nicolle is a given name or surname and can refer to:People with the surname Nicolle:* Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine* Victor-Jean Nicolle, artistPeople with the given name Nicolle:...
  
  
• Niels
  Niels
  Niels is a common Danish man's name, equivalent to Nicholas. The Norwegian and Swedish variant is Nils, and the pet form is Nisse. It may refer to:In science:...
  
  
• Nike (mythology)
  Nike (mythology)
  In Greek mythology, Nike was a goddess who personified victory, also known as the Winged Goddess of Victory. The Roman equivalent was Victoria. Depending upon the time of various myths, she was described as the daughter of Pallas and Styx and the sister of Kratos , Bia , and Zelus...
  
  
• Niki (disambiguation)
• Nikki (disambiguation)
• Niklaus (disambiguation)
• Nikola
  Nikola
  Nikola is a male given name, derived from Greek Nikolaos , common in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Czechia and Slovenia...
  
  
• Nikolais
• Nikolaj
  Nikolaj
  Nikolaj is a given name, and may refer to:* Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish artist* Nicolaj Agger, Danish professional football player* Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Danish actor...
  
  
• Nikolaos
  Nikolaos
  Nikolaos is a common Greek first name which some believe means " victory of the people", Nikolaos means "victorious over the people" . Composed from Niko and Laos . In addition, Laos originates from the greek root "-las", as found in word "λα-τομείο" meaning stone...
  
  
• Nikolay (disambiguation)