Nikolaos — #2755 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Nikolaos

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,020 babies named Nikolaos between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nikolaos currently holds the #2755 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 57 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nikolaos performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 447 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Nikolaos shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 427 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Nikolaos in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nikolaos 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 2,020 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.