Nikolai — #590 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nikolai

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,550 babies named Nikolai between 1960 and 2024, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nikolai currently holds the #590 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 639 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nikolai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,058 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Nikolai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,603 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Nikolai in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nikolai 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 10,550 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.