Nickolaos
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nickolaos has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1977, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Nickolaos, 1990
1 in 658,000
Nickolaos 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nickolaos?
Nickolaos had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 658,000
- 6 of 3,949,959 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 456,318 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nickolaos sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 456,318 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nickolaos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nickolaoss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nickolaos was born before 1979 — so the typical Nickolaos is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 46.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 152
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (71).
Is Nickolaos 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 1977 (13)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.5% average annual change
Spellings of Nickolaos
Nickolaos is not the most common spelling — Nicholas is, with 83.4% against Nickolaos'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 Nickolaos is used
Across 1910–2025, Nickolaos was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,903,406 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. Nickolaos has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nickolaos around the world
Where Nickolaos 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.
- Canada2017–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia1958–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nickolaos by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nickolaos
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nickolaos
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.