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Nicodemus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 45 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,482 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,482 in 1994; #2,826 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nicodemus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,826 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #2,482.
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Nicodemus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 45 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,482 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 48 (2022).
In 2025, 45 US boys were named Nicodemus, making it the 2,826th most common boys’ name of the year, up 545 places from #3,371 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 35 boys named Nicodemus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,482, reached in 1994. The most boys given the name in a single year was 48, in 2022. For comparison, it was #3,658 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nicodemus in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 6 babies. In all, 1,120 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 303 babies named Nicodemus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 369 US boys were named Nicodemus; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 48. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,957 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nicodemus ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #2,017 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. The open nickname list we use links it to Nic, Nick, Nickie, Nicky and Nico.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,017 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 45 | #2,826 |
| 2024 | — | — | 35 | #3,371 |
| 2023 | — | — | 37 | #3,269 |
| 2022 | — | — | 48 | #2,744 |
| 2021 | — | — | 39 | #3,106 |
| 2020 | — | — | 39 | #3,012 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,543 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,497 |
| 2017 | — | — | 36 | #3,234 |
| 2016 | — | — | 26 | #4,063 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,658 |
| 2014 | — | — | 37 | #3,072 |
| 2013 | — | — | 32 | #3,385 |
| 2012 | — | — | 25 | #4,094 |
| 2011 | — | — | 27 | #3,863 |
| 2010 | — | — | 26 | #3,962 |
| 2009 | — | — | 24 | #4,241 |
| 2008 | — | — | 20 | #4,850 |
| 2007 | — | — | 30 | #3,571 |
| 2006 | — | — | 29 | #3,583 |
| 2005 | — | — | 33 | #3,148 |
| 2004 | — | — | 22 | #4,094 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,093 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,064 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,120 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,272 |
| 1999 | — | — | 23 | #3,457 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,809 |
| 1997 | — | — | 23 | #3,238 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,809 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,442 |
| 1994 | — | — | 31 | #2,482 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,463 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,081 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #7,051 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,591 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,161 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,710 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,748 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,576 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,056 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,783 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,377 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,747 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,891 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,414 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,849 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,909 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,435 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,203 |
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).