Meaning not yet researched.
Nicholaus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #662 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #662 in 1981; #13,332 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nicholaus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,332 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #662.
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Nicholaus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #662 in 1981 · most boys in one year: 168 (1981).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Nicholaus, making it the 13,332nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 5,723 places from #7,609 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 11 boys named Nicholaus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #662, reached in 1981. That year also had the most boys given the name: 168. For comparison, it was #9,318 in 2015 and #2,715 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nicholaus in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 9 babies. In all, 3,260 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,155 babies named Nicholaus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 85 US boys were named Nicholaus; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nickolaus (1,795 babies since 1880) and Nicholas (929,199 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nichalous are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nichalous (52).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nicholaus in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #13,332 |
| 2024 | — | — | 11 | #7,609 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #11,848 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #10,544 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,531 |
| 2019 | — | — | 11 | #7,482 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,410 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,244 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,250 |
| 2015 | — | — | 8 | #9,318 |
| 2014 | — | — | 6 | #11,715 |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,574 |
| 2012 | — | — | 22 | #4,489 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,600 |
| 2010 | — | — | 16 | #5,662 |
| 2009 | — | — | 19 | #5,053 |
| 2008 | — | — | 39 | #3,047 |
| 2007 | — | — | 38 | #3,068 |
| 2006 | — | — | 45 | #2,647 |
| 2005 | — | — | 45 | #2,515 |
| 2004 | — | — | 38 | #2,777 |
| 2003 | — | — | 41 | #2,539 |
| 2002 | — | — | 56 | #1,992 |
| 2001 | — | — | 62 | #1,809 |
| 2000 | — | — | 85 | #1,459 |
| 1999 | — | — | 88 | #1,364 |
| 1998 | — | — | 78 | #1,457 |
| 1997 | — | — | 87 | #1,315 |
| 1996 | — | — | 82 | #1,329 |
| 1995 | — | — | 104 | #1,124 |
| 1994 | — | — | 102 | #1,123 |
| 1993 | — | — | 102 | #1,111 |
| 1992 | — | — | 116 | #1,013 |
| 1991 | — | — | 105 | #1,061 |
| 1990 | — | — | 105 | #1,036 |
| 1989 | — | — | 104 | #1,007 |
| 1988 | — | — | 75 | #1,170 |
| 1987 | — | — | 80 | #1,072 |
| 1986 | — | — | 119 | #832 |
| 1985 | — | — | 102 | #899 |
| 1984 | — | — | 114 | #822 |
| 1983 | — | — | 107 | #847 |
| 1982 | — | — | 133 | #763 |
| 1981 | — | — | 168 | #662 |
| 1980 | — | — | 153 | #703 |
| 1979 | — | — | 167 | #662 |
| 1978 | — | — | 130 | #745 |
| 1977 | — | — | 44 | #1,387 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,477 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,928 |
| 1974 | — | — | 18 | #2,332 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,100 |
| 1972 | — | — | 13 | #2,773 |
| 1971 | — | — | 20 | #2,099 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,112 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,512 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,998 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,375 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,906 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,376 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,715 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).