Nickolaus
Nickolaus was last recorded in 2019, when 8 babies were given it; 1,795 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,710 Americans named Nickolaus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nickolaus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nickolaus?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,486, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 1990, the peak
Nickolaus peaked in 1990, when 72 boys were given it, #1,309 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8 | #9,486 | 4.5 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,401 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,406 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,962 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,394 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,547 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,933 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,180 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 26 | #4,003 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,202 | 17.6 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 30 | #3,568 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,430 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,639 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,774 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 45 | #2,377 | 22.8 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,113 | 26.3 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,770 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,114 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 54 | #1,842 | 28.1 |
| 1998 | 68 | #1,566 | 35.6 |
| 1997 | 62 | #1,637 | 32.9 |
| 1996 | 51 | #1,806 | 26.9 |
| 1995 | 61 | #1,552 | 32.0 |
| 1994 | 52 | #1,721 | 26.9 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,349 | 36.7 |
| 1992 | 63 | #1,458 | 31.5 |
| 1991 | 54 | #1,580 | 26.7 |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,309 | 35.1 |
| 1989 | 59 | #1,424 | 29.5 |
| 1988 | 51 | #1,492 | 26.6 |
| 1987 | 49 | #1,476 | 26.2 |
| 1986 | 52 | #1,376 | 28.2 |
| 1985 | 51 | #1,367 | 27.6 |
| 1984 | 47 | #1,389 | 26.0 |
| 1983 | 51 | #1,308 | 28.5 |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,162 | 34.7 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,219 | 31.8 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,235 | 31.4 |
| 1979 | 49 | #1,335 | 28.5 |
| 1978 | 36 | #1,589 | 21.9 |
| 1977 | 25 | #1,987 | 15.2 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,411 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,261 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,760 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,370 | 4.5 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,432 | 2.8 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,812 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,274 | 2.7 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,377 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,308 | 2.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,783 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nickolaus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nickolaus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nickolaus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nickolaus, and how old are they?
1,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,795 Americans ever recorded as Nickolaus. The median Nickolaus alive today is 33 years old; half are between 26 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,315 people named Nickolaus (1 woman or girl, 1,314 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,734 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 192 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 860 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 603 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 49 |
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 Nickolaus born?
The states with the most babies named Nickolaus are California, Texas and Ohio, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 171 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 67 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Nickolaus 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 177,990 babies since 1880, Nickolaus is the eighth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,718 babies recorded by SSA was a Nickolaus (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 Nickolaus
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 Nickolaus and names like it
- Compare Nickolaus and NicolasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sNickolaus peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nickolaus since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Nickolaus.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Nickolaus alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.