Nicolai
- #2,572 for boys in 2025, 51 births
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 78 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,865since 1962
Nicolai over time
Rank among boys' names. Nicolai 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,572 | 51 |
| 2024 | #2,559 | 52 |
| 2023 | #2,480 | 54 |
| 2022 | #2,136 | 69 |
| 2021 | #2,588 | 50 |
| 2020 | #2,546 | 50 |
| 2019 | #2,421 | 55 |
| 2018 | #2,210 | 62 |
| 2017 | #2,715 | 45 |
| 2016 | #2,110 | 66 |
| 2015 | #1,870 | 78 |
| 2014 | #2,063 | 68 |
| 2013 | #2,182 | 60 |
| 2012 | #2,132 | 63 |
| 2011 | #2,478 | 50 |
| 2010 | #2,187 | 60 |
| 2009 | #2,231 | 59 |
| 2008 | #2,001 | 70 |
| 2007 | #2,504 | 50 |
| 2006 | #2,221 | 57 |
| 2005 | #2,399 | 48 |
| 2004 | #2,376 | 47 |
| 2003 | #2,349 | 45 |
| 2002 | #3,022 | 30 |
| 2001 | #3,228 | 27 |
| 2000 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #2,782 | 29 |
| 1997 | #2,613 | 30 |
| 1996 | #3,107 | 23 |
| 1995 | #2,026 | 41 |
| 1994 | #2,392 | 32 |
| 1993 | #3,246 | 20 |
| 1992 | #2,909 | 23 |
| 1991 | #2,915 | 22 |
| 1990 | #2,049 | 36 |
| 1989 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #3,005 | 16 |
| 1985 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
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| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nicolai! It came in at #3,640, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1968, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Nicolai is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#1,111 · 1 in 8,756
- Florida#1,625 · 1 in 15,922
- California#1,998 · 1 in 25,068
- Texas#2,285 · 1 in 29,175
Best ever in a state: #694 in Virginia, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #1,111 | 6 | 1 in 8,756 |
| Florida | #1,625 | 6 | 1 in 15,922 |
| California | #1,998 | 7 | 1 in 25,068 |
| Texas | #2,285 | 6 | 1 in 29,175 |
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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 Nicolai
- 26 spots since 2020 (#2,546 → #2,572)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2015 at #1,870 (78 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,574 boys born in 2015 were named Nicolai (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 33,492 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.5% of all boys named Nicolai (607) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 12 | #3,640 (1962) | #3,788 |
| 1970s | 48 | #2,946 (1976) | #4,347 |
| 1980s | 125 | #2,469 (1989) | #3,872 |
| 1990s | 284 | #2,026 (1995) | #2,698 |
| 2000s | 463 | #2,001 (2008) | #2,525 |
| 2010s | 607 | #1,870 (2015) | #2,237 |
| 2020s | 326 | #2,136 (2022) | #2,480 |
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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