Nikolaos
- #2,572 for boys in 2025, 51 births
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 48 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,072since 1962
Nikolaos over time
Rank among boys' names. Nikolaos 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 | #2,750 | 47 |
| 2023 | #2,614 | 50 |
| 2022 | #2,717 | 48 |
| 2021 | #2,410 | 56 |
| 2020 | #2,617 | 48 |
| 2019 | #2,736 | 46 |
| 2018 | #3,055 | 38 |
| 2017 | #2,951 | 40 |
| 2016 | #2,587 | 48 |
| 2015 | #2,809 | 42 |
| 2014 | #2,277 | 58 |
| 2013 | #2,562 | 47 |
| 2012 | #3,231 | 34 |
| 2011 | #2,547 | 48 |
| 2010 | #2,579 | 47 |
| 2009 | #2,702 | 45 |
| 2008 | #2,542 | 49 |
| 2007 | #2,442 | 52 |
| 2006 | #3,306 | 32 |
| 2005 | #2,528 | 44 |
| 2004 | #2,316 | 49 |
| 2003 | #2,579 | 39 |
| 2002 | #3,259 | 27 |
| 2001 | #2,618 | 36 |
| 2000 | #2,864 | 31 |
| 1999 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #2,552 | 33 |
| 1997 | #2,680 | 29 |
| 1996 | #2,145 | 39 |
| 1995 | #2,253 | 35 |
| 1994 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #3,042 | 22 |
| 1992 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1991 | #2,344 | 30 |
| 1990 | #2,780 | 23 |
| 1989 | #2,027 | 35 |
| 1988 | #2,961 | 18 |
| 1987 | #2,333 | 24 |
| 1986 | #1,760 | 35 |
| 1985 | #1,672 | 37 |
| 1984 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #1,631 | 36 |
| 1982 | #2,059 | 26 |
| 1981 | #1,811 | 31 |
| 1980 | #2,003 | 27 |
| 1979 | #1,340 | 48 |
| 1978 | #1,537 | 37 |
| 1977 | #1,546 | 36 |
| 1976 | #1,502 | 36 |
| 1975 | #1,630 | 31 |
| 1974 | #1,501 | 34 |
| 1973 | #1,982 | 21 |
| 1972 | #2,080 | 19 |
| 1971 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | #2,293 | 16 |
| 1969 | #2,308 | 14 |
| 1968 | #2,445 | 12 |
| 1967 | #2,760 | 9 |
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| 1965 | #3,537 | 6 |
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| 1962 | #3,305 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nikolaos! It came in at #3,305, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1964, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Nikolaos is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#1,267 · 1 in 10,507
- Illinois#1,280 · 1 in 9,910
- New York#1,760 · 1 in 16,885
- California#2,471 · 1 in 35,095
Best ever in a state: #294 in Connecticut, 1974.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #1,267 | 5 | 1 in 10,507 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
| California | #2,471 | 5 | 1 in 35,095 |
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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 Nikolaos
- 178 spots since 2024 (#2,750 → #2,572)
- 45 spots since 2020 (#2,617 → #2,572)
- 237 spots since 2015 (#2,809 → #2,572)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1979 at #1,340 (48 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 31,241 boys born in 2021 were named Nikolaos (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 33,492 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,340 in 1979, was only 1 in 35,865 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.6% of all boys named Nikolaos (448) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 48 | #2,308 (1969) | #2,871 |
| 1970s | 295 | #1,340 (1979) | #1,769 |
| 1980s | 293 | #1,631 (1983) | #2,042 |
| 1990s | 284 | #2,145 (1996) | #2,681 |
| 2000s | 404 | #2,316 (2004) | #2,716 |
| 2010s | 448 | #2,277 (2014) | #2,733 |
| 2020s | 300 | #2,410 (2021) | #2,613 |
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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