How Many People Are Named Nickolaus?
people named Nickolaus are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 199,291 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,795 babies named Nickolaus in Social Security records from 1921 to 2019, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
72 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of NIKOLAUS.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Nickolaus in English. Counting Nickolaus and these spellings together, about 4,274 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Nickolaus in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Nickolaus alive today is about 32 years old, and 58% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 25 and 40 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Nickolaus first appears in the records in 1921 and was given most often in 1990, to 72 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2019.
Babies given the name each year, 1921 to 2019
🏆 Rank History
Nickolaus has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,162, in 1982.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,162 (1982) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,580 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Nickolaus alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Nickolaus were born in California than in any other state: about 163 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Nickolaus was given 3.6 times as often in California and 2.3 times in Texas.
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