Nickolas
Nickolas reached its high-water mark in 1998 at number 259, and has been recorded 39,403 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,492nd. About 35,000 Nickolases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 39,403
- Estimated living today
- 35,000
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 259th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,492nd
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 47 / 39,356
How old the living Nickolases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 39,403 babies given the name since 1882, about 35,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 5,700 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Rare spelling variant of Nicholas.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Nickolass
- Nickolas Muray (1892–1965)American photographer and fencer
People named Nickolas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nickolas is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nickolas is most concentrated in Idaho (2.2×), Washington (1.9×), Utah (1.8×), Nevada (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular boys’ names the year Nickolas peaked:
Nickolas elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Nickolas | 207 | 1,786th |
| France boys | Nickolas | 75 | 1,607th |
| Poland boys | Nickolas | 14 birth registrations | 435th |
| Scotland boys | Nickolas | 9 | 297th |
| Ireland boys | Nickolas | 4 | 623rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Nickolas: rank by region
In 2013, Nickolas was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Nickolas | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Nickolas among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Nickolas | 10 | 13 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Nickolas against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.