Nikolas

What Nikolas means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Nikolas yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #566 in 2015 to #717 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Nikolas?

US: Falling: down from #566 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #523 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2004, when 1,060 boys got the name (#301 that year). First in the US records in 1937.

How common

• About 1 in 4,555 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 5,230 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MA (0.48 per 1,000 boys), AZ (0.4 per 1,000 boys), NJ (0.4 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Nikolas is #717 in the US and #687 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Nikolas were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Nicolas2,053 US · 115 E&W
• Nickolas118 US
• Nikolaos51 US · 15 E&W
• Nikolaus24 US
• Nikoloz6 US
• Nicolaas6 US
• Nikkolas6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Nikolas

Boys

• Cole#182“coal, coal-black”^*
• Cameron#76“crooked, bent + nose”^*
• Samuel#18“God has set or God has placed”^*
• Riley#207“rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Nathaniel#140“God has given”^*
• Andres#200Spanish form of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*

For a sister

• Madison#40Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 5 babies
• Mackenzie#228“son, descendant + of Coinneach”^*
• Madeline#81Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #81 vs #304 in 2025
• Faith#254Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #90 in 2015, #254 in 2025
• Julia#131Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2001, with 8,838 babies; 2,172 in 2025
• Bailey#208“outer castle wall”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Nikolas’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.