Nicolaas — boys' name

What the Data Says About Nicolaas

The Social Security Administration has registered 398 babies named Nicolaas between 1960 and 2017, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nicolaas currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 22 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nicolaas performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 131 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nicolaas shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nicolaas in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nicolaas in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 398 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.