Nickolas
Last seen for girls in 2004 at #16,099 · #1,492 for boys in 2025, 118 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1989 · 1,048 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 39,356since 1882
Nickolas over time
Rank among boys' names. Nickolas has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,492 | 118 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,540 | 114 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,408 | 130 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,393 | 133 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,170 | 168 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,039 | 195 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,004 | 208 | |
| 2018 | — | #840 | 265 | |
| 2017 | — | #936 | 223 | |
| 2016 | — | #788 | 301 | |
| 2015 | — | #727 | 339 | |
| 2014 | — | #720 | 335 | |
| 2013 | — | #645 | 380 | |
| 2012 | — | #565 | 457 | |
| 2011 | — | #549 | 463 | |
| 2010 | — | #465 | 565 | |
| 2009 | — | #447 | 621 | |
| 2008 | — | #399 | 739 | |
| 2007 | — | #369 | 842 | |
| 2006 | — | #335 | 938 | |
| 2005 | — | #328 | 939 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #298 | 1,069 |
| 2003 | — | #325 | 911 | |
| 2002 | — | #317 | 891 | |
| 2001 | — | #301 | 973 | |
| 2000 | — | #282 | 1,089 | |
| 1999 | — | #264 | 1,138 | |
| 1998 | — | #259 | 1,156 | |
| 1997 | — | #261 | 1,083 | |
| 1996 | — | #263 | 1,067 | |
| 1995 | — | #267 | 1,052 | |
| 1994 | — | #263 | 1,080 | |
| 1993 | — | #264 | 1,084 | |
| 1992 | — | #264 | 1,069 | |
| 1991 | — | #270 | 1,002 | |
| 1990 | — | #268 | 998 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #248 | 1,048 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #285 | 823 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #278 | 789 |
| 1986 | — | #279 | 756 | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #306 | 671 |
| 1984 | — | #315 | 619 | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #304 | 648 |
| 1982 | — | #323 | 589 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #309 | 614 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #298 | 680 |
| 1979 | — | #317 | 607 | |
| 1978 | — | #310 | 574 | |
| 1977 | — | #495 | 270 | |
| 1976 | — | #625 | 173 | |
| 1975 | — | #705 | 138 | |
| 1974 | — | #735 | 122 | |
| 1973 | — | #683 | 136 | |
| 1972 | — | #729 | 119 | |
| 1971 | — | #773 | 111 | |
| 1970 | — | #721 | 130 | |
| 1969 | — | #770 | 102 | |
| 1968 | — | #685 | 121 | |
| 1967 | — | #739 | 99 | |
| 1966 | — | #785 | 85 | |
| 1965 | — | #854 | 74 | |
| 1964 | — | #831 | 83 | |
| 1963 | — | #851 | 79 | |
| 1962 | — | #799 | 90 | |
| 1961 | — | #825 | 86 | |
| 1960 | — | #799 | 91 | |
| 1959 | — | #854 | 79 | |
| 1958 | — | #747 | 97 | |
| 1957 | — | #744 | 102 | |
| 1956 | — | #712 | 106 | |
| 1955 | — | #739 | 97 | |
| 1954 | — | #694 | 108 | |
| 1953 | — | #759 | 88 | |
| 1952 | — | #647 | 115 | |
| 1951 | — | #647 | 119 | |
| 1950 | — | #716 | 92 | |
| 1949 | — | #702 | 95 | |
| 1948 | — | #760 | 79 | |
| 1947 | — | #715 | 92 | |
| 1946 | — | #812 | 65 | |
| 1945 | — | #761 | 65 | |
| 1944 | — | #782 | 64 | |
| 1943 | — | #697 | 85 | |
| 1942 | — | #687 | 87 | |
| 1941 | — | #713 | 75 | |
| 1940 | — | #792 | 61 | |
| 1939 | — | #818 | 55 | |
| 1938 | — | #784 | 61 | |
| 1937 | — | #858 | 51 | |
| 1936 | — | #742 | 66 | |
| 1935 | — | #822 | 57 | |
| 1934 | — | #733 | 69 | |
| 1933 | — | #710 | 72 | |
| 1932 | — | #708 | 76 | |
| 1931 | — | #775 | 65 | |
| 1930 | — | #564 | 113 | |
| 1929 | — | #633 | 93 | |
| 1928 | — | #547 | 123 | |
| 1927 | — | #508 | 142 | |
| 1926 | — | #525 | 132 | |
| 1925 | — | #528 | 135 | |
| 1924 | — | #495 | 155 | |
| 1923 | — | #530 | 132 | |
| 1922 | — | #568 | 125 | |
| 1921 | — | #562 | 125 | |
| 1920 | — | #516 | 140 | |
| 1919 | — | #518 | 131 | |
| 1918 | — | #504 | 140 | |
| 1917 | — | #496 | 134 | |
| 1916 | — | #547 | 109 | |
| 1915 | — | #595 | 92 | |
| 1914 | — | #512 | 91 | |
| 1913 | — | #592 | 55 | |
| 1912 | — | #608 | 45 | |
| 1911 | — | #824 | 16 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,045 | 10 | |
| 1909 | — | #756 | 14 | |
| 1908 | — | #946 | 9 | |
| 1907 | — | #999 | 8 | |
| 1906 | — | #927 | 8 | |
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | #874 | 8 | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | #1,013 | 6 | |
| 1901 | — | #943 | 6 | |
| 1900 | — | #1,050 | 7 | |
| 1899 | — | #1,051 | 5 | |
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | #982 | 6 | |
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | #954 | 6 | |
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | #917 | 6 | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | #936 | 5 | |
| 1884 | — | #764 | 7 | |
| 1883 | — | #892 | 5 | |
| 1882 | — | #754 | 7 | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Nickolas! It came in at #754, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1885–1887, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Nickolas
- 48 spots since 2024 (#1,540 → #1,492)
- 453 spots since 2020 (#1,039 → #1,492)
- 765 spots since 2015 (#727 → #1,492)
- Biggest jump: 221 spots in 1911 (#1,045 → #824)
- Biggest drop: 289 spots in 1910 (#756 → #1,045)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1989 at #248 (1,048 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 121 yrs · run 1911–2018
- Highest: 1 in 1,653 boys born in 1998 were named Nickolas (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,475 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #248 in 1989, was only 1 in 1,909 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.3% of all boys named Nickolas (10,729) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 30 | #754 (1882) | #853 |
| 1890s | 17 | #954 (1894) | #996 |
| 1900s | 66 | #756 (1909) | #939 |
| 1910s | 823 | #496 (1917) | #624 |
| 1920s | 1,302 | #495 (1924) | #541 |
| 1930s | 685 | #564 (1930) | #751 |
| 1940s | 768 | #687 (1942) | #742 |
| 1950s | 1,003 | #647 (1951) | #726 |
| 1960s | 910 | #685 (1968) | #794 |
| 1970s | 2,380 | #310 (1978) | #609 |
| 1980s | 7,237 | #248 (1989) | #295 |
| 1990s | 10,729 | #259 (1998) | #264 |
| 2000s | 9,012 | #282 (2000) | #340 |
| 2010s | 3,536 | #465 (2010) | #724 |
| 2020s | 858 | #1,039 (2020) | #1,340 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nickolas in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 347,726 of them was named Nickolas, which outranked 14.6% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,938 names at #11,325; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 2,366 of them was named Nickolas, which outranked 96.6% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.