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Nicolasa

Girls' name

Feminine form of Nicholas

Nicolasa has been given to 1,127 babies in the U.S. since 1891. 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 1920, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Nicolasa, 2016

1 in 612,000

Nicolasa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nicolasa: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Nicholas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nicolasa means

Nicolasa is a feminine form of Nicholas.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nicolasa is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ni.ko.ˈla.sa/ for Nicolasa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nicolasa → Nicholas. The family’s meaning is “victory + people”, recorded in English with the source elements νίκη and λαός.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nicholas and Nicola.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Nicolasa is pronounced /nikoˈlasa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,127 girls were recorded with the name Nicolasa between 1891 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,166 in 1920.

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 Nicolasa?

Nicolasa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 295,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nicolasa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nicolasa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nicolasas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nicolasa was born before 1934 — so the typical Nicolasa is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
394
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (288).

Is Nicolasa 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 1920 (43)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,166
1920

Spellings of Nicolasa

Nicolasa is not the most common spelling — Nicola is, with 45.5% against Nicolasa's 10.1%.

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 Nicolasa is used

Across 1910–2025, Nicolasa was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 45,783 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Nicolasa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nicolasa around the world

Where Nicolasa 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.

  • France
    1921–1966
    #1,985
    in 1966

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Nicolasa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,166
1920
Peak year
1920
43 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
1,127
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nicolasa

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

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Sibling names for Nicolasa

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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