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Nicolaos

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Nikolaos

Nicolaos has been given to 99 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1975, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Nicolaos, 2011

1 in 610,000

Nicolaos over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nicolaos: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Nikolaos

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nicolaos means

Nicolaos is a alternate transcription of Nikolaos.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nicolaos is used in Greek.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nicolaos → Nikolaos. The family’s meaning is “I conquer + people”, recorded in English with the source elements νικάω and λαός.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nikolaos.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 99 boys were recorded with the name Nicolaos between 1971 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1975; its best national rank was #3,598 in 1975.

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 Nicolaos?

Nicolaos had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 317,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nicolaos 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 2011 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 422,582 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nicolaos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nicolaoss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nicolaos was born before 1981 — so the typical Nicolaos is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
51.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
99
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1980s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Nicolaos 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 1975 (10)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,598
1975

Spellings of Nicolaos

Nicolaos is not the most common spelling — Nicholas is, with 83.0% against Nicolaos'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 Nicolaos is used

Across 1910–2025, Nicolaos was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,258 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 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. Nicolaos has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nicolaos around the world

Where Nicolaos 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 Australia
    1957–2000
    #556
    in 2000

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nicolaos by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,598
1975
Peak year
1975
10 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
99
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nicolaos

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

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Sibling names for Nicolaos

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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