Meaning not yet researched.
Niklas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,397 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,397 in 2000; #8,060 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Niklas in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,060 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,397.
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Niklas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,397 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 90 (2000).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Niklas, making it the 8,060th most common boys’ name of the year, up 5,600 places from #13,660 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 5 boys named Niklas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,397, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 90. For comparison, it was #4,251 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Niklas in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 1,711 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 686 babies named Niklas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 148 US boys were named Niklas; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nicklas (2,430 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 Niklas 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 | — | — | 10 | #8,060 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #13,660 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,723 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #8,138 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,886 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #6,916 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #6,024 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,594 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,744 |
| 2016 | — | — | 25 | #4,171 |
| 2015 | — | — | 24 | #4,251 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,222 |
| 2013 | — | — | 45 | #2,656 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,220 |
| 2011 | — | — | 30 | #3,577 |
| 2010 | — | — | 56 | #2,312 |
| 2009 | — | — | 49 | #2,579 |
| 2008 | — | — | 48 | #2,614 |
| 2007 | — | — | 66 | #2,087 |
| 2006 | — | — | 78 | #1,784 |
| 2005 | — | — | 77 | #1,735 |
| 2004 | — | — | 58 | #2,067 |
| 2003 | — | — | 74 | #1,683 |
| 2002 | — | — | 71 | #1,677 |
| 2001 | — | — | 75 | #1,597 |
| 2000 | — | — | 90 | #1,397 |
| 1999 | — | — | 71 | #1,570 |
| 1998 | — | — | 59 | #1,735 |
| 1997 | — | — | 78 | #1,410 |
| 1996 | — | — | 71 | #1,452 |
| 1995 | — | — | 40 | #2,087 |
| 1994 | — | — | 44 | #1,918 |
| 1993 | — | — | 35 | #2,245 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,650 |
| 1991 | — | — | 28 | #2,524 |
| 1990 | — | — | 33 | #2,200 |
| 1989 | — | — | 31 | #2,235 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,307 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,897 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,661 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,912 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,783 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,386 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,433 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,320 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,378 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,744 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,566 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,209 |
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).