Meaning not yet researched.
Nikolaos: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,347 in 1979.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,347 in 1979; #2,591 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nikolaos in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,591 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1979, at #1,347.
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Nikolaos: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,347 in 1979 · most boys in one year: 58 (2014).
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Nikolaos, making it the 2,591st most common boys’ name of the year, up 192 places from #2,783 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 47 boys named Nikolaos in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,347, reached in 1979. The most boys given the name in a single year was 58, in 2014. For comparison, it was #2,846 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nikolaos in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 7 babies. In all, 2,072 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 448 babies named Nikolaos.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 472 US boys were named Nikolaos; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nikolaos ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,421 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nicholas (929,199 babies since 1880), Nicolas (101,764 babies since 1880), Nikolas (24,050 babies since 1880) and Niko (15,135 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 Nikolaos 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 5 | #1,421 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,429 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,967 | #1,313 |
| California | 5 | #2,698 | #2,198 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 51 | #2,591 |
| 2024 | — | — | 47 | #2,783 |
| 2023 | — | — | 50 | #2,646 |
| 2022 | — | — | 48 | #2,745 |
| 2021 | — | — | 56 | #2,426 |
| 2020 | — | — | 48 | #2,647 |
| 2019 | — | — | 46 | #2,754 |
| 2018 | — | — | 38 | #3,089 |
| 2017 | — | — | 40 | #2,988 |
| 2016 | — | — | 48 | #2,609 |
| 2015 | — | — | 42 | #2,846 |
| 2014 | — | — | 58 | #2,289 |
| 2013 | — | — | 47 | #2,588 |
| 2012 | — | — | 34 | #3,283 |
| 2011 | — | — | 48 | #2,577 |
| 2010 | — | — | 47 | #2,619 |
| 2009 | — | — | 45 | #2,738 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,570 |
| 2007 | — | — | 52 | #2,467 |
| 2006 | — | — | 32 | #3,359 |
| 2005 | — | — | 44 | #2,552 |
| 2004 | — | — | 49 | #2,333 |
| 2003 | — | — | 39 | #2,607 |
| 2002 | — | — | 27 | #3,316 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,668 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,903 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #2,999 |
| 1998 | — | — | 33 | #2,586 |
| 1997 | — | — | 29 | #2,731 |
| 1996 | — | — | 39 | #2,171 |
| 1995 | — | — | 35 | #2,285 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,425 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,117 |
| 1992 | — | — | 25 | #2,797 |
| 1991 | — | — | 30 | #2,382 |
| 1990 | — | — | 23 | #2,843 |
| 1989 | — | — | 35 | #2,056 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,043 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,376 |
| 1986 | — | — | 35 | #1,781 |
| 1985 | — | — | 37 | #1,690 |
| 1984 | — | — | 24 | #2,217 |
| 1983 | — | — | 36 | #1,646 |
| 1982 | — | — | 26 | #2,098 |
| 1981 | — | — | 31 | #1,849 |
| 1980 | — | — | 27 | #2,037 |
| 1979 | — | — | 48 | #1,347 |
| 1978 | — | — | 37 | #1,560 |
| 1977 | — | — | 36 | #1,565 |
| 1976 | — | — | 36 | #1,529 |
| 1975 | — | — | 31 | #1,652 |
| 1974 | — | — | 34 | #1,511 |
| 1973 | — | — | 21 | #2,016 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,133 |
| 1971 | — | — | 17 | #2,345 |
| 1970 | — | — | 16 | #2,377 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,383 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,541 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,918 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,813 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,535 |
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).