Nicklas
Nicklas was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,372 among boys’ names; 2,430 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,300 Americans named Nicklas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicklas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nicklas mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Nicklas is “a male given name, variant of Niklas”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nicklas?
#10,372 among boys’ names, 2025
Nicklas fell from #4,502 in 2015 to #10,372 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.5 to 4.1 per million.
111 babies in 2002, the peak
Nicklas peaked in 2002, when 111 boys were given it, #1,231 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,372 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,481 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,724 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,430 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,525 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 12 | #7,053 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,997 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,193 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,705 | 8.4 |
| 2015 | 22 | #4,502 | 11.5 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 19 | #5,000 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,469 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,990 | 20.6 |
| 2011 | 46 | #2,657 | 24.2 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,714 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,156 | 31.8 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,225 | 29.4 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,403 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,165 | 29.2 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,349 | 25.0 |
| 2004 | 81 | #1,612 | 40.8 |
| 2003 | 78 | #1,622 | 39.5 |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,231 | 57.2 |
| 2001 | 72 | #1,641 | 37.1 |
| 2000 | 95 | #1,346 | 48.4 |
| 1999 | 101 | #1,236 | 52.6 |
| 1998 | 110 | #1,139 | 57.6 |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,313 | 46.2 |
| 1996 | 56 | #1,698 | 29.6 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,423 | 36.8 |
| 1994 | 59 | #1,571 | 30.5 |
| 1993 | 49 | #1,756 | 25.0 |
| 1992 | 68 | #1,375 | 34.0 |
| 1991 | 51 | #1,637 | 25.2 |
| 1990 | 51 | #1,622 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,014 | 18.0 |
| 1988 | 42 | #1,691 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,963 | 17.1 |
| 1986 | 40 | #1,636 | 21.7 |
| 1985 | 36 | #1,716 | 19.5 |
| 1984 | 35 | #1,676 | 19.4 |
| 1983 | 34 | #1,704 | 19.0 |
| 1982 | 35 | #1,693 | 19.3 |
| 1981 | 34 | #1,716 | 19.0 |
| 1980 | 42 | #1,487 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 46 | #1,385 | 26.7 |
| 1978 | 37 | #1,559 | 22.5 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,249 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,785 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,183 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,429 | 10.8 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,100 | 12.8 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,393 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,571 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,444 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,804 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,686 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,917 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,459 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,910 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,906 | 2.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,875 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,373 | 3.4 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,293 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,093 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,236 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,063 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,102 | 2.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,760 | 3.7 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,771 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,370 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,135 | 5.6 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,604 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicklas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicklas has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nicklas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicklas, and how old are they?
2,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,430 Americans ever recorded as Nicklas. The median Nicklas alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 2,073 people named Nicklas (3 women and girls, 2,070 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,285 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 35 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 254 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 693 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 184 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Nicklas born?
The states with the most babies named Nicklas are Michigan, California and Texas, with 79% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 402 | not ranked | 4.7× |
| California | 115 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 56 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 50 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Iowa | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 8 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Nicklas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nicklas is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1914 it was given 4.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nicklas with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 177,045 babies since 1880, Nicklas is the fifth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 2,704 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Nicklas
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 Nicklas and names like it
- Compare Nicklas and NicolasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNicklas peaked in 2002.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicklas since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Nicklas: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Nicklas.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nicklas alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.