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Nicole
Nicole Nicole carries the accessible, confident femininity of a classic mid-20th-century French name — victorious by etymology, warmly approachable in usage. Characters named Nicole in French fiction project a self-assured practicality and social intelligence suited to contemporary stories of French women negotiating work, family, and love, as well as historical fiction of the postwar period when the name was at its height of popularity.
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