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Nicklas

#10,372 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Niklas

Nicklas has been given to 2,430 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #10,372 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 111 recorded.

Babies named Nicklas, 2025

1 in 474,000

Nicklas over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nicklas: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Niklas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nicklas means

Nicklas is a variant of Niklas.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nicklas → Niklas → Nikolas → Nikolaus. The family’s proposed meaning is “victory of the people”, recorded in Finnish with the source elements Nikólaos.

Origin, language, and formation

Nicklas is used in Danish and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Niklas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,430 boys were recorded with the name Nicklas between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 111 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,139 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,525 in 2020 to #10,372 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,502 in 2015 to #10,372 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nicklas?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,372
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nicklas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nicklas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nicklass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nicklas was born before 1998 — so the typical Nicklas is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,391
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (724).

Is Nicklas 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,847
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,870
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.3%
Peak was 2002 (111)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,139
1998

Spellings of Nicklas

Nicklas is not the most common spelling — Nicholas is, with 83.4% against Nicklas's 0.22%.

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 Nicklas is used

Across 1910–2025, Nicklas was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 148,230 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Iowa1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Nicklas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nicklas around the world

Where Nicklas 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 & Wales
    2008–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #468
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1993–2013
    #2,635
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Nicklas

People whose public names include Nicklas, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nicklas in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Nicklas. Linked forms have their own page here.

Niklas

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Nicklas by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,372
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,847
Best rank ever
#1,139
1998
Peak year
2002
111 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,430
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Nicklas

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Nicklas

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nicklas, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Nicklas

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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