Nikolas
Last seen for girls in 2005 at #16,462 · #717 for boys in 2025, 375 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 1,007 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 24,035since 1937
Nikolas over time
Rank among boys' names. Nikolas 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 | — | #717 | 375 | |
| 2024 | — | #728 | 362 | |
| 2023 | — | #649 | 422 | |
| 2022 | — | #595 | 475 | |
| 2021 | — | #585 | 477 | |
| 2020 | — | #604 | 453 | |
| 2019 | — | #602 | 454 | |
| 2018 | — | #552 | 502 | |
| 2017 | — | #586 | 463 | |
| 2016 | — | #565 | 499 | |
| 2015 | — | #566 | 497 | |
| 2014 | — | #557 | 495 | |
| 2013 | — | #514 | 520 | |
| 2012 | — | #487 | 550 | |
| 2011 | — | #474 | 562 | |
| 2010 | — | #455 | 591 | |
| 2009 | — | #443 | 633 | |
| 2008 | — | #430 | 674 | |
| 2007 | — | #398 | 741 | |
| 2006 | — | #383 | 780 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #335 | 898 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #301 | 1,060 |
| 2003 | — | #351 | 795 | |
| 2002 | — | #358 | 745 | |
| 2001 | — | #355 | 747 | |
| 2000 | — | #358 | 739 | |
| 1999 | — | #319 | 885 | |
| 1998 | — | #286 | 1,007 | |
| 1997 | — | #352 | 718 | |
| 1996 | — | #393 | 599 | |
| 1995 | — | #464 | 487 | |
| 1994 | — | #451 | 492 | |
| 1993 | — | #459 | 458 | |
| 1992 | — | #478 | 443 | |
| 1991 | — | #483 | 418 | |
| 1990 | — | #474 | 439 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #512 | 350 |
| 1988 | — | #538 | 289 | |
| 1987 | — | #618 | 216 | |
| 1986 | — | #632 | 201 | |
| 1985 | — | #644 | 185 | |
| 1984 | — | #665 | 169 | |
| 1983 | — | #700 | 149 | |
| 1982 | — | #757 | 136 | |
| 1981 | — | #757 | 133 | |
| 1980 | — | #777 | 127 | |
| 1979 | — | #755 | 132 | |
| 1978 | — | #820 | 108 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,177 | 56 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,781 | 28 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,361 | 41 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,471 | 35 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,548 | 31 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,566 | 30 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,862 | 23 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,125 | 18 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,414 | 32 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,788 | 20 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,139 | 14 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,476 | 11 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
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| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nikolas! It came in at #3,175, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1938–1959, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Nikolas
- 11 spots since 2024 (#728 → #717)
- 113 spots since 2020 (#604 → #717)
- 151 spots since 2015 (#566 → #717)
- Biggest jump: 357 spots in 1978 (#1,177 → #820)
- Biggest drop: 79 spots in 2024 (#649 → #728)
- Debuted 1937
- Peaked 1998 at #286 (1,007 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 48 yrs · run 1978–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,873 boys born in 2004 were named Nikolas (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,555 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #286 in 1998, was only 1 in 1,898 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.5% of all boys named Nikolas (7,812) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 6 | #3,175 (1937) | #3,175 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,690 (1949) | #3,690 |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,944 (1958) | #3,944 |
| 1960s | 107 | #1,414 (1969) | #2,594 |
| 1970s | 502 | #755 (1979) | #1,447 |
| 1980s | 1,955 | #512 (1989) | #660 |
| 1990s | 5,946 | #286 (1998) | #416 |
| 2000s | 7,812 | #301 (2004) | #371 |
| 2010s | 5,133 | #455 (2010) | #536 |
| 2020s | 2,564 | #585 (2021) | #646 |
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.
Nikolas in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 369,568 of them was named Nikolas, which outranked 14.3% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 2,224 of them was named Nikolas, which outranked 97.5% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).