Nikolaus
#4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 70 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,656since 1955
Nikolaus over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Nikolaus has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #4,249 | 24 |
| 2024 | #3,605 | 31 |
| 2023 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #3,427 | 33 |
| 2020 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2019 | #3,426 | 33 |
| 2018 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #3,889 | 27 |
| 2016 | #4,327 | 23 |
| 2015 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #2,582 | 47 |
| 2013 | #3,964 | 25 |
| 2012 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #2,730 | 44 |
| 2009 | #2,800 | 43 |
| 2008 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #2,832 | 40 |
| 2005 | #2,265 | 52 |
| 2004 | #1,934 | 63 |
| 2003 | #1,845 | 64 |
| 2002 | #2,019 | 54 |
| 2001 | #1,699 | 68 |
| 2000 | #1,629 | 72 |
| 1999 | #1,503 | 75 |
| 1998 | #1,359 | 86 |
| 1997 | #1,402 | 78 |
| 1996 | #1,347 | 80 |
| 1995 | #1,244 | 87 |
| 1994 | #1,146 | 98 |
| 1993 | #1,431 | 66 |
| 1992 | #1,119 | 96 |
| 1991 | #1,170 | 89 |
| 1990 | #1,278 | 75 |
| 1989 | #1,294 | 71 |
| 1988 | #1,178 | 73 |
| 1987 | #1,175 | 67 |
| 1986 | #1,199 | 63 |
| 1985 | #1,371 | 50 |
| 1984 | #1,294 | 51 |
| 1983 | #1,222 | 56 |
| 1982 | #1,293 | 52 |
| 1981 | #1,143 | 64 |
| 1980 | #1,079 | 70 |
| 1979 | #1,089 | 67 |
| 1978 | #1,326 | 47 |
| 1977 | #2,556 | 17 |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 12 |
| 1975 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #3,107 | 8 |
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| 1966 | #3,249 | 7 |
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First appearance
1955
The first year at least five boys were named Nikolaus! It came in at #3,886, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1965, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 644 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #4,249)
- 291 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #4,249)
- 158 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #4,249)
Rise & fade · boys
25 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 1980 at #1,079 (70 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 27 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 19,715
- Highest: 1 in 19,715 boys born in 1994 were named Nikolaus (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,079 in 1980, was only 1 in 25,485 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 31.3% of all boys named Nikolaus (830) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,886 (1955) | #3,886 |
| 1960s | 22 | #3,107 (1968) | #3,317 |
| 1970s | 198 | #1,089 (1979) | #2,908 |
| 1980s | 617 | #1,079 (1980) | #1,225 |
| 1990s | 830 | #1,119 (1992) | #1,300 |
| 2000s | 539 | #1,629 (2000) | #2,279 |
| 2010s | 297 | #2,582 (2014) | #3,756 |
| 2020s | 148 | #3,427 (2021) | #4,342 |
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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