Nicholai
- #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · boys
- 2010 · 51 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,024since 1962
Nicholai over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Nicholai has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #6,479 | 13 |
| 2021 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #4,020 | 25 |
| 2019 | #3,716 | 29 |
| 2018 | #3,607 | 30 |
| 2017 | #2,493 | 51 |
| 2016 | #3,358 | 33 |
| 2015 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 2014 | #3,617 | 29 |
| 2013 | #2,562 | 47 |
| 2012 | #2,954 | 39 |
| 2011 | #2,663 | 45 |
| 2010 | #2,429 | 51 |
| 2009 | #3,045 | 38 |
| 2008 | #2,632 | 47 |
| 2007 | #3,135 | 36 |
| 2006 | #2,578 | 46 |
| 2005 | #3,022 | 34 |
| 2004 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | #3,963 | 7 |
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First appearance
1962
The first year at least five boys were named Nicholai! It came in at #4,033, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1971, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Nicholai is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Nicholai in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,360 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #6,803)
- 2,783 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #6,803)
- 3,781 spots since 2015 (#3,022 → #6,803)
Rise & fade · boys
48 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2010 at #2,429 (51 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 36,293
- Highest: 1 in 36,293 boys born in 2017 were named Nicholai (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 142,340 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,429 in 2010, was only 1 in 37,621 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 38.3% of all boys named Nicholai (392) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,033 (1962) | #4,033 |
| 1970s | 17 | #3,963 (1972) | #5,040 |
| 1980s | 95 | #3,071 (1983) | #4,613 |
| 1990s | 120 | #3,501 (1993) | #4,909 |
| 2000s | 300 | #2,578 (2006) | #3,586 |
| 2010s | 392 | #2,429 (2010) | #3,042 |
| 2020s | 95 | #4,020 (2020) | #5,867 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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