Nicklaus
Nicklaus was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,531 among boys’ names; 3,462 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,330 Americans named Nicklaus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicklaus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nicklaus?
#7,531 among boys’ names, 2025
Nicklaus fell from #5,448 in 2015 to #7,531 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 6.4 per million.
156 babies in 1997, the peak
Nicklaus peaked in 1997, when 156 boys were given it, #889 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,531 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,995 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 21 | #4,839 | 12.3 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,394 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,273 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,107 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,917 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,692 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,422 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,273 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,448 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,859 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,319 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,429 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,669 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,163 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,244 | 29.7 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,114 | 31.9 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,180 | 29.9 |
| 2006 | 73 | #1,868 | 35.5 |
| 2005 | 96 | #1,502 | 48.1 |
| 2004 | 73 | #1,739 | 36.8 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,426 | 47.1 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,401 | 48.4 |
| 2001 | 104 | #1,276 | 53.5 |
| 2000 | 150 | #989 | 76.4 |
| 1999 | 123 | #1,090 | 64.1 |
| 1998 | 143 | #967 | 74.8 |
| 1997 | 156 | #889 | 82.8 |
| 1996 | 120 | #1,026 | 63.3 |
| 1995 | 130 | #971 | 68.3 |
| 1994 | 130 | #964 | 67.3 |
| 1993 | 102 | #1,108 | 52.0 |
| 1992 | 88 | #1,190 | 44.1 |
| 1991 | 103 | #1,070 | 51.0 |
| 1990 | 83 | #1,194 | 40.4 |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,260 | 37.0 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,277 | 34.0 |
| 1987 | 67 | #1,181 | 35.9 |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,020 | 45.1 |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,185 | 34.1 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,140 | 35.5 |
| 1983 | 79 | #999 | 44.1 |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,136 | 35.8 |
| 1981 | 84 | #991 | 46.9 |
| 1980 | 70 | #1,085 | 39.2 |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,134 | 36.6 |
| 1978 | 92 | #898 | 56.0 |
| 1977 | 37 | #1,534 | 22.5 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,392 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,845 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,745 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 25 | #1,808 | 16.0 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,278 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,920 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,445 | 4.8 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,581 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,848 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,810 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,448 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicklaus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicklaus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nicklaus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicklaus, and how old are they?
3,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,462 Americans ever recorded as Nicklaus. The median Nicklaus alive today is 30 years old; half are between 23 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 2,673 people named Nicklaus (5 women and girls, 2,668 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,257 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 340 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,330 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 293 |
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 Nicklaus born?
The states with the most babies named Nicklaus are California, Texas and Ohio, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 260 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 193 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 142 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 113 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 97 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 64 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 50 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 46 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 45 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 42 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Nicklaus 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 155,651 babies since 1880, Nicklaus is the third most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 2,353 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Nicklaus
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 Nicklaus and names like it
- Compare Nicklaus and NicolasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNicklaus peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicklaus since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Nicklaus.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nicklaus alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.