Meaning not yet researched.
Niklaus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 130 in 2025. Its best rank was #844 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #844 in 2021; #1,407 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Niklaus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,407 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #844.
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Niklaus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 130 boys in 2025. Peak: #844 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 282 (2021).
In 2025, 130 US boys were named Niklaus, making it the 1,407th most common boys’ name of the year, down 174 places from #1,233 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 163 boys named Niklaus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #844, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 282. For comparison, it was #1,585 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Niklaus in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 8 babies. In all, 2,430 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,251 babies named Niklaus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,929 US boys were named Niklaus; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 282. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,139 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Niklaus ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #960 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nicklaus (3,462 babies since 1880), Nicklas (2,430 babies since 1880) and Niklas (1,711 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Niklaus 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 5 | #960 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #964 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,036 | #2,017 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,111 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,220 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,394 | #1,728 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,428 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,438 | #1,165 |
| California | 8 | #1,942 | #1,514 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 130 | #1,407 |
| 2024 | — | — | 163 | #1,233 |
| 2023 | — | — | 185 | #1,138 |
| 2022 | — | — | 236 | #962 |
| 2021 | — | — | 282 | #844 |
| 2020 | — | — | 255 | #889 |
| 2019 | — | — | 221 | #973 |
| 2018 | — | — | 183 | #1,083 |
| 2017 | — | — | 156 | #1,194 |
| 2016 | — | — | 118 | #1,462 |
| 2015 | — | — | 102 | #1,585 |
| 2014 | — | — | 63 | #2,171 |
| 2013 | — | — | 37 | #3,038 |
| 2012 | — | — | 14 | #6,217 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #10,436 |
| 2009 | — | — | 6 | #12,045 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #14,022 |
| 2007 | — | — | 10 | #8,004 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,463 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #9,845 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #6,045 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,590 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,969 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,344 |
| 2000 | — | — | 13 | #5,498 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,284 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,963 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,873 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,938 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,030 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,205 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,915 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,537 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,808 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,947 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,055 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,575 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,911 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,490 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,289 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,019 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,991 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,819 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,716 |
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).