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Nikodem

#5,536 in 2025Boys' name

Victory + people, through Nīcodēmus

Nikodem has been given to 191 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #5,536 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Nikodem, 2025

1 in 195,000

Nikodem over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nikodem: meaning, origin, and history

Victory + people, through Nīcodēmus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nikodem means

Nikodem belongs to the name family reached through Nikodem → Nīcodēmus. Its meaning is “victory + people”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nikodem is used in Polish.

Nikodem comes through Latin Nīcodēmus and Ancient Greek Νῑκόδημος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nicodemus and Nīcodēmus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Nikodem is pronounced /ɲiˈkɔ.dɛm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 191 boys were recorded with the name Nikodem between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,161 in 2022.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,294 in 2015 to #5,536 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 Nikodem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,536
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nikodem 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikodem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nikodems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikodem was born before 2018 — so the typical Nikodem is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
191
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.0% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Nikodem 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
−158
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,758
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
89.5%
Peak was 2022 (19)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,161
2022

Where Nikodem is used

Across 1910–2025, Nikodem was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 185,532 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000

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

Nikodem around the world

Where Nikodem 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
    2004–2025
    #522
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #441
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2025
    #270
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #372
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #4,054
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2023–2025
    #259
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nikodem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,536
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,161
2022
Peak year
2022
19 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
191
Count in 2025
17

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

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