Meaning not yet researched.
Nickolas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 118 in 2025. Its best rank was #248 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #248 in 1989; #1,498 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nickolas in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,498 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #248.
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Nickolas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 118 boys in 2025. Peak: #248 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 1,156 (1998).
In 2025, 118 US boys were named Nickolas, making it the 1,498th most common boys’ name of the year, up 47 places from #1,545 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 114 boys named Nickolas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #248, reached in 1989. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,156, in 1998. For comparison, it was #728 in 2015 and #716 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nickolas in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 7 babies. In all, 39,403 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 10,729 babies named Nickolas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,855 US boys were named Nickolas; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 301. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nickolas ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #962 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nickolaus (1,795 babies since 1880), Nicolas (101,764 babies since 1880), Nikolas (24,050 babies since 1880) and Nikolaus (2,656 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nickalus, Nickalaus and Nickalos 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: Nickalus (444), Nickalaus (281), Nickalos (265), Nickolous (44), Nickalis (39), Nickales (17), Nikkolaus (6).
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 Nickolas in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 6 | #962 | #823 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,070 | #578 |
| California | 20 | #1,073 | #527 |
| New York | 11 | #1,097 | #621 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,108 | #643 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,139 | #825 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,284 | #678 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 118 | #1,498 |
| 2024 | — | — | 114 | #1,545 |
| 2023 | — | — | 130 | #1,414 |
| 2022 | — | — | 133 | #1,402 |
| 2021 | — | — | 168 | #1,178 |
| 2020 | — | — | 195 | #1,043 |
| 2019 | — | — | 208 | #1,007 |
| 2018 | — | — | 265 | #841 |
| 2017 | — | — | 223 | #939 |
| 2016 | — | — | 301 | #789 |
| 2015 | — | — | 339 | #728 |
| 2014 | — | — | 335 | #722 |
| 2013 | — | — | 380 | #645 |
| 2012 | — | — | 457 | #566 |
| 2011 | — | — | 463 | #550 |
| 2010 | — | — | 565 | #466 |
| 2009 | — | — | 621 | #447 |
| 2008 | — | — | 739 | #400 |
| 2007 | — | — | 842 | #369 |
| 2006 | — | — | 938 | #335 |
| 2005 | — | — | 939 | #328 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,048 | 1,069 | #298 |
| 2003 | — | — | 911 | #325 |
| 2002 | — | — | 891 | #317 |
| 2001 | — | — | 973 | #301 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,089 | #282 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,138 | #264 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,156 | #259 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,083 | #261 |
| 1996 | — | — | 1,067 | #263 |
| 1995 | — | — | 1,052 | #267 |
| 1994 | — | — | 1,080 | #263 |
| 1993 | — | — | 1,084 | #264 |
| 1992 | — | — | 1,069 | #265 |
| 1991 | — | — | 1,002 | #270 |
| 1990 | — | — | 998 | #268 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,872 | 1,048 | #248 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,324 | 823 | #285 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,638 | 789 | #278 |
| 1986 | — | — | 756 | #279 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,236 | 671 | #306 |
| 1984 | — | — | 619 | #315 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,686 | 648 | #304 |
| 1982 | — | — | 589 | #324 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,588 | 614 | #309 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,771 | 680 | #299 |
| 1979 | — | — | 607 | #317 |
| 1978 | — | — | 574 | #310 |
| 1977 | — | — | 270 | #498 |
| 1976 | — | — | 173 | #626 |
| 1975 | — | — | 138 | #706 |
| 1974 | — | — | 122 | #736 |
| 1973 | — | — | 136 | #685 |
| 1972 | — | — | 119 | #731 |
| 1971 | — | — | 111 | #773 |
| 1970 | — | — | 130 | #723 |
| 1969 | — | — | 102 | #771 |
| 1968 | — | — | 121 | #687 |
| 1967 | — | — | 99 | #741 |
| 1966 | — | — | 85 | #791 |
| 1965 | — | — | 74 | #857 |
| 1964 | — | — | 83 | #836 |
| 1963 | — | — | 79 | #854 |
| 1962 | — | — | 90 | #801 |
| 1961 | — | — | 86 | #832 |
| 1960 | — | — | 91 | #802 |
| 1959 | — | — | 79 | #859 |
| 1958 | — | — | 97 | #753 |
| 1957 | — | — | 102 | #745 |
| 1956 | — | — | 106 | #713 |
| 1955 | — | — | 97 | #742 |
| 1954 | — | — | 108 | #696 |
| 1953 | — | — | 88 | #761 |
| 1952 | — | — | 115 | #648 |
| 1951 | — | — | 119 | #647 |
| 1950 | — | — | 92 | #716 |
| 1949 | — | — | 95 | #704 |
| 1948 | — | — | 79 | #763 |
| 1947 | — | — | 92 | #717 |
| 1946 | — | — | 65 | #817 |
| 1945 | — | — | 65 | #766 |
| 1944 | — | — | 64 | #788 |
| 1943 | — | — | 85 | #698 |
| 1942 | — | — | 87 | #690 |
| 1941 | — | — | 75 | #717 |
| 1940 | — | — | 61 | #797 |
| 1939 | — | — | 55 | #826 |
| 1938 | — | — | 61 | #795 |
| 1937 | — | — | 51 | #862 |
| 1936 | — | — | 66 | #744 |
| 1935 | — | — | 57 | #828 |
| 1934 | — | — | 69 | #739 |
| 1933 | — | — | 72 | #715 |
| 1932 | — | — | 76 | #715 |
| 1931 | — | — | 65 | #780 |
| 1930 | — | — | 113 | #566 |
| 1929 | — | — | 93 | #638 |
| 1928 | — | — | 123 | #550 |
| 1927 | — | — | 142 | #510 |
| 1926 | — | — | 132 | #526 |
| 1925 | — | — | 135 | #530 |
| 1924 | — | — | 155 | #498 |
| 1923 | — | — | 132 | #530 |
| 1922 | — | — | 125 | #569 |
| 1921 | — | — | 125 | #565 |
| 1920 | — | — | 140 | #517 |
| 1919 | — | — | 131 | #520 |
| 1918 | — | — | 140 | #507 |
| 1917 | — | — | 134 | #496 |
| 1916 | — | — | 109 | #550 |
| 1915 | — | — | 92 | #599 |
| 1914 | — | — | 91 | #514 |
| 1913 | — | — | 55 | #595 |
| 1912 | — | — | 45 | #620 |
| 1911 | — | — | 16 | #851 |
| 1910 | — | — | 10 | #1,096 |
| 1909 | — | — | 14 | #794 |
| 1908 | — | — | 9 | #1,001 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,070 |
| 1906 | — | — | 8 | #980 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #938 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,108 |
| 1901 | — | — | 6 | #1,027 |
| 1900 | — | — | 7 | #1,134 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,156 |
| 1896 | — | — | 6 | #1,069 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #1,044 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #1,006 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #1,047 |
| 1884 | — | — | 7 | #823 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #1,003 |
| 1882 | — | — | 7 | #813 |
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).