Nicholai
#7,071 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nicholai has been given to 1,024 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #7,071 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 51 recorded.
Babies named Nicholai, 2025
1 in 276,000
Nicholai over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nicholai?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,071
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nicholai sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nicholai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nicholais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nicholai was born before 2009 — so the typical Nicholai is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 75.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,024
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (392).
Is Nicholai rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −1,481
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,965
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,005
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.32×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 23.5%
- Peak was 2010 (51)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.8% average annual change
Spellings of Nicholai
Nicholai is not the most common spelling — Nicholas is, with 84.8% against Nicholai's 0.09%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Nicholai is used
Across 1910–2025, Nicholai was most concentrated in Alaska — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 289,315 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alaska1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nicholai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nicholai around the world
Where Nicholai ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2007–2008#4,432in 2008
- Canada2007–2012#2,715in 2012
- South Australia1974–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nicholai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nicholai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nicholai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.