Nickolas
Nickolas is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 113 births. Its best rank was 248th, in 1989.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1130.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19981,156 births
- Best rank
- #248in 1989
- Since 1882
- 39,235people given the name
The story in the numbers
39,235 boys have been named Nickolas in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 1,156 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1990s alone account for 27%. It has spent 113 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Nickolas | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 30 | |
| 1890s | 17 | |
| 1900s | 66 | |
| 1910s | 823 | |
| 1920s | 1,302 | |
| 1930s | 685 | |
| 1940s | 768 | |
| 1950s | 1,003 | |
| 1960s | 910 | |
| 1970s | 2,380 | |
| 1980s | 7,237 | |
| 1990s | 10,729 | |
| 2000s | 9,012 | |
| 2010s | 3,534 | |
| 2020s | 739 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Nickolas was the 259th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Nickolas
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nathanialpeak 1999
- Nicholaspeak 1995
- Luizpeak 2000
- Domonickpeak 2002
- Jessypeak 1992
- Estevanpeak 2003
- Quentonpeak 1990
- Jonathenpeak 2000
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.