Nickels Family Crest & Name History

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Nickel surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

Meaning of the name

One surname, two spellings: Nickels and Nickel. At root, the name means “Little Nikolaus”.

Nickels adds a patronymic ending to Nickel, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. 4,949 Americans were listed as Nickels in the 2010 census. French birth records list 194 children named Nickels between 1891 and 2000.

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