Niklaus
- #1,401 for boys in 2025, 130 births
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 282 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,430since 1979
Niklaus over time
Rank among boys' names. Niklaus has never cracked the top 800 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 | #1,401 | 130 |
| 2024 | #1,231 | 163 |
| 2023 | #1,137 | 185 |
| 2022 | #959 | 236 |
| 2021 | #842 | 282 |
| 2020 | #886 | 255 |
| 2019 | #968 | 221 |
| 2018 | #1,079 | 183 |
| 2017 | #1,191 | 156 |
| 2016 | #1,456 | 118 |
| 2015 | #1,581 | 102 |
| 2014 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2013 | #2,998 | 37 |
| 2012 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #5,303 | 16 |
| 2005 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #3,849 | 18 |
| 1997 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
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| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Niklaus! It came in at #4,403, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1984, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Niklaus is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Missouri#869 · 1 in 5,562
- Washington#898 · 1 in 5,466
- New York#994 · 1 in 7,035
- North Carolina#1,028 · 1 in 7,353
- Michigan#1,113 · 1 in 8,039
Best ever in a state: #233 in Hawaii, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Missouri | #869 | 5 | 1 in 5,562 |
| Washington | #898 | 6 | 1 in 5,466 |
| New York | #994 | 12 | 1 in 7,035 |
| North Carolina | #1,028 | 7 | 1 in 7,353 |
| Michigan | #1,113 | 5 | 1 in 8,039 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
| Texas | #1,347 | 14 | 1 in 12,504 |
| Florida | #1,353 | 8 | 1 in 11,942 |
| California | #1,829 | 8 | 1 in 21,934 |
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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 Niklaus
- 515 spots since 2020 (#886 → #1,401)
- 180 spots since 2015 (#1,581 → #1,401)
- Biggest jump: 111 spots in 2019
- Biggest drop: 178 spots in 2023
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2021 at #842 (282 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2019–2022
- Highest: 1 in 6,204 boys born in 2021 were named Niklaus (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,139 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 51.5% of all boys named Niklaus (1,251) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 8 | #4,403 (1979) | #4,403 |
| 1980s | 53 | #4,495 (1980) | #5,629 |
| 1990s | 115 | #3,849 (1998) | #5,170 |
| 2000s | 102 | #5,297 (2000) | #7,558 |
| 2010s | 901 | #968 (2019) | #3,013 |
| 2020s | 1,251 | #842 (2021) | #1,076 |
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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