Nicklas
#9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 110 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,430since 1914
Nicklas over time
Rank among boys' names. Nicklas has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #6,479 | 13 |
| 2021 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #4,866 | 19 |
| 2013 | #3,405 | 31 |
| 2012 | #2,954 | 39 |
| 2011 | #2,626 | 46 |
| 2010 | #2,682 | 45 |
| 2009 | #2,143 | 63 |
| 2008 | #2,207 | 60 |
| 2007 | #2,372 | 54 |
| 2006 | #2,150 | 60 |
| 2005 | #2,325 | 50 |
| 2004 | #1,604 | 81 |
| 2003 | #1,611 | 78 |
| 2002 | #1,228 | 111 |
| 2001 | #1,629 | 72 |
| 2000 | #1,341 | 95 |
| 1999 | #1,235 | 101 |
| 1998 | #1,133 | 110 |
| 1997 | #1,310 | 87 |
| 1996 | #1,690 | 56 |
| 1995 | #1,417 | 70 |
| 1994 | #1,564 | 59 |
| 1993 | #1,741 | 49 |
| 1992 | #1,371 | 68 |
| 1991 | #1,632 | 51 |
| 1990 | #1,615 | 51 |
| 1989 | #1,993 | 36 |
| 1988 | #1,671 | 42 |
| 1987 | #1,938 | 32 |
| 1986 | #1,617 | 40 |
| 1985 | #1,698 | 36 |
| 1984 | #1,656 | 35 |
| 1983 | #1,687 | 34 |
| 1982 | #1,677 | 35 |
| 1981 | #1,695 | 34 |
| 1980 | #1,475 | 42 |
| 1979 | #1,370 | 46 |
| 1978 | #1,537 | 37 |
| 1977 | #2,202 | 21 |
| 1976 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #2,036 | 20 |
| 1972 | #2,323 | 16 |
| 1971 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #2,576 | 11 |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,784 | 9 |
| 1965 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
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| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
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| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
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| 1954 | #3,176 | 7 |
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| 1952 | #3,095 | 7 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
| 1950 | #3,021 | 7 |
| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
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| 1944 | #3,430 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #4,347 | 5 |
| 1923 | #3,175 | 8 |
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| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
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| 1914 | #3,264 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nicklas! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1919, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Nicklas is popular in 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#350 · 1 in 2,338
- California#1,474 · 1 in 25,212
- Texas#1,572 · 1 in 25,591
Best ever in a state: #216 in Michigan, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | #350 | 24 | 1 in 2,338 |
| California | #1,474 | 10 | 1 in 25,212 |
| Texas | #1,572 | 7 | 1 in 25,591 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nicklas
- 3,418 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #9,714)
- 5,307 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #9,714)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1998 at #1,133 (110 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,376 boys born in 1998 were named Nicklas (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.8% of all boys named Nicklas (724) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,264 (1914) | #3,264 |
| 1920s | 19 | #3,175 (1923) | #3,779 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 15 | #3,430 (1944) | #3,618 |
| 1950s | 32 | #3,021 (1950) | #3,325 |
| 1960s | 50 | #2,576 (1968) | #3,088 |
| 1970s | 202 | #1,370 (1979) | #2,427 |
| 1980s | 366 | #1,475 (1980) | #1,711 |
| 1990s | 702 | #1,133 (1998) | #1,471 |
| 2000s | 724 | #1,228 (2002) | #1,861 |
| 2010s | 267 | #2,626 (2011) | #4,408 |
| 2020s | 48 | #6,296 (2020) | #8,215 |
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.
Nicklas in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 24,506 of them was named Nicklas, which outranked 87.9% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,593Leobardo82
- #1,593Reggie82
- #1,593Tobin82
- #1,604Nicklas81
- #1,604Andrey81
- #1,604Armand81
- #1,604Ashten81
- #1,618Ashwin80
- #1,618Chayton80
- #1,618Ismail80
Tied with 13 names at #1,604; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.