Meaning not yet researched.
Nicklas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,142 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,142 in 1998; #10,376 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nicklas in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,376 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,142.
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Nicklas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,142 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 111 (2002).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Nicklas, making it the 10,376th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,142, reached in 1998. The most boys given the name in a single year was 111, in 2002. For comparison, it was #4,504 in 2015 and #3,237 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nicklas in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 2,430 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 724 babies named Nicklas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 113 US boys were named Nicklas; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Niklas (1,711 babies since 1880), Nicklaus (3,462 babies since 1880) and Niklaus (2,430 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Nicklas 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 | — | — | 7 | #10,376 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #10,486 |
| 2022 | — | — | 13 | #6,729 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #9,435 |
| 2020 | — | — | 13 | #6,529 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #7,058 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #7,001 |
| 2017 | — | — | 25 | #4,197 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,709 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,504 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #5,004 |
| 2013 | — | — | 31 | #3,471 |
| 2012 | — | — | 39 | #2,992 |
| 2011 | — | — | 46 | #2,658 |
| 2010 | — | — | 45 | #2,715 |
| 2009 | — | — | 63 | #2,157 |
| 2008 | — | — | 60 | #2,226 |
| 2007 | — | — | 54 | #2,403 |
| 2006 | — | — | 60 | #2,166 |
| 2005 | — | — | 50 | #2,353 |
| 2004 | — | — | 81 | #1,615 |
| 2003 | — | — | 78 | #1,625 |
| 2002 | — | — | 111 | #1,234 |
| 2001 | — | — | 72 | #1,645 |
| 2000 | — | — | 95 | #1,349 |
| 1999 | — | — | 101 | #1,238 |
| 1998 | — | — | 110 | #1,142 |
| 1997 | — | — | 87 | #1,316 |
| 1996 | — | — | 56 | #1,701 |
| 1995 | — | — | 70 | #1,428 |
| 1994 | — | — | 59 | #1,576 |
| 1993 | — | — | 49 | #1,761 |
| 1992 | — | — | 68 | #1,380 |
| 1991 | — | — | 51 | #1,643 |
| 1990 | — | — | 51 | #1,627 |
| 1989 | — | — | 36 | #2,019 |
| 1988 | — | — | 42 | #1,696 |
| 1987 | — | — | 32 | #1,967 |
| 1986 | — | — | 40 | #1,637 |
| 1985 | — | — | 36 | #1,717 |
| 1984 | — | — | 35 | #1,677 |
| 1983 | — | — | 34 | #1,705 |
| 1982 | — | — | 35 | #1,694 |
| 1981 | — | — | 34 | #1,717 |
| 1980 | — | — | 42 | #1,487 |
| 1979 | — | — | 46 | #1,385 |
| 1978 | — | — | 37 | #1,559 |
| 1977 | — | — | 21 | #2,249 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,786 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,185 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,431 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,101 |
| 1972 | — | — | 16 | #2,393 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,573 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,446 |
| 1969 | — | — | 11 | #2,805 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,687 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,918 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,460 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,911 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,907 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,876 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,374 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,295 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,094 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,237 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,065 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,104 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,762 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,773 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,372 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,137 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,605 |
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).