Nicholaos
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nicholaos has been given to 124 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1979, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Nicholaos, 2008
1 in 562,000
Nicholaos 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nicholaos?
Nicholaos had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 562,000
- 7 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 389,226 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nicholaos sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 389,226 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nicholaos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nicholaoss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nicholaos was born before 1981 — so the typical Nicholaos is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 41.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 37.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 124
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (51).
Is Nicholaos 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1979 (9)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.4% average annual change
Spellings of Nicholaos
Nicholaos is not the most common spelling — Nicholas is, with 85.7% against Nicholaos's 0.01%.
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 Nicholaos is used
Across 1910–2025, Nicholaos was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,332,384 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Nicholaos has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nicholaos around the world
Where Nicholaos 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.
- South Australia1958–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nicholaos by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nicholaos
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nicholaos
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.