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Nikodemus

Boys' name

Victor(y) of the people

Nikodemus has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2023. 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 2024, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Nikodemus, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nikodemus: meaning, origin, and history

Victor(y) of the people

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nikodemus means

Nikodemus means “victor(y) of the people”, associated with Nīkódēmos.

Origin, language, and formation

Nikodemus is used in Faroese and Finnish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Nikodemus is pronounced /ˈnikode(ː)mus/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Nikodemus between 2023 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2024; its best national rank was #11,930 in 2024.

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 Nikodemus?

Nikodemus had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nikodemus 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikodemus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nikodemuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikodemus was born before 2024 — so the typical Nikodemus is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Nikodemus 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2024 (6)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,930
2024

Spellings of Nikodemus

Nikodemus is not the most common spelling — Nicodemus is, with 99.0% against Nikodemus's 0.97%.

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.

Nikodemus 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
#11,930
2024
Peak year
2024
6 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nikodemus

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

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Sibling names for Nikodemus

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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