Name Kol Gender Masculine & Feminine Usage Popular Culture Pronounced Pron. KOL Other Forms FormsCole, Kole, and Kohl. Edit Status Status Meaning & History Variant of COLE, and short form of NIKOLAI, Nikola, and other names beginning with Nikol. Kol Mikaelson is the name of one of the original vampires on the TV show The Vampire Diaries.