Meaning not yet researched.
Nickolaus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,163 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #1,163 in 1982. No US babies were recorded with the name Nickolaus in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #1,163 in 1982.
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Nickolaus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,163 in 1982 · most boys in one year: 72 (1993).
Fewer than five US boys were named Nickolaus in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,163, reached in 1982. The most boys given the name in a single year was 72, in 1993. For comparison, it was #6,967 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nickolaus in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 5 babies. In all, 1,795 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 609 babies named Nickolaus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 26 US boys were named Nickolaus; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 11.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nickolas (39,403 babies since 1880), Nicholaus (3,260 babies since 1880), Nicolas (101,764 babies since 1880) and Nikolas (24,050 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nickalous and Nickelous 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: Nickalous (172), Nickelous (15).
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 Nickolaus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,491 |
| 2017 | — | — | 11 | #7,405 |
| 2016 | — | — | 7 | #10,411 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #6,967 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,399 |
| 2012 | — | — | 13 | #6,553 |
| 2011 | — | — | 19 | #4,935 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,183 |
| 2009 | — | — | 26 | #4,005 |
| 2008 | — | — | 36 | #3,204 |
| 2007 | — | — | 30 | #3,570 |
| 2006 | — | — | 31 | #3,432 |
| 2005 | — | — | 42 | #2,643 |
| 2004 | — | — | 38 | #2,778 |
| 2003 | — | — | 45 | #2,381 |
| 2002 | — | — | 51 | #2,117 |
| 2001 | — | — | 34 | #2,775 |
| 2000 | — | — | 48 | #2,118 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,845 |
| 1998 | — | — | 68 | #1,569 |
| 1997 | — | — | 62 | #1,640 |
| 1996 | — | — | 51 | #1,810 |
| 1995 | — | — | 61 | #1,557 |
| 1994 | — | — | 52 | #1,726 |
| 1993 | — | — | 72 | #1,354 |
| 1992 | — | — | 63 | #1,463 |
| 1991 | — | — | 54 | #1,586 |
| 1990 | — | — | 72 | #1,314 |
| 1989 | — | — | 59 | #1,429 |
| 1988 | — | — | 51 | #1,497 |
| 1987 | — | — | 49 | #1,478 |
| 1986 | — | — | 52 | #1,377 |
| 1985 | — | — | 51 | #1,368 |
| 1984 | — | — | 47 | #1,390 |
| 1983 | — | — | 51 | #1,309 |
| 1982 | — | — | 63 | #1,163 |
| 1981 | — | — | 57 | #1,219 |
| 1980 | — | — | 56 | #1,235 |
| 1979 | — | — | 49 | #1,335 |
| 1978 | — | — | 36 | #1,589 |
| 1977 | — | — | 25 | #1,987 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,413 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,263 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,762 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,372 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,434 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,813 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,275 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,378 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,310 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,785 |
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).