Nicholus
Nicholus was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 755 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicholus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nicholus?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,681, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1978, the peak
Nicholus peaked in 1978, when 47 boys were given it, #1,344 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,681 | 3.1 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,562 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,610 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,798 | 4.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,626 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,113 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,839 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,654 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,440 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,933 | 10.8 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 17 | #4,506 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,159 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,992 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,996 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,925 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,654 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,820 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,456 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,298 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,374 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 21 | #3,022 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,750 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,473 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,613 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,751 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,107 | 14.6 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,139 | 13.9 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,127 | 13.9 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,804 | 17.6 |
| 1981 | 36 | #1,651 | 20.1 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,612 | 20.7 |
| 1979 | 47 | #1,364 | 27.3 |
| 1978 | 47 | #1,344 | 28.6 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,530 | 11.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,260 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,079 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,953 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,801 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,430 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,273 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,906 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicholus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicholus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nicholus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicholus, and how old are they?
An estimated 714 Americans named Nicholus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 29 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 578 people named Nicholus (0 women and girls, 578 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 726 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 936,846 babies since 1880, Nicholus is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,128 babies recorded by SSA was a Nicholus (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nicholus
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nicholus and names like it
- Compare Nicholus and NicholasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sNicholus peaked in 1978.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicholus since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Nicholus.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nicholus alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.