Nikolia
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nikolia has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2015, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 69% boys, 31% girls all-time.
Babies named Nikolia, 2015
1 in 617,000
Nikolia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Nikolia over time
In 2020, Nikolia went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Nikolia?
Nikolia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 617,000
- 6 of 3,701,574 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 319,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 427,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nikolia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikolia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nikolias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikolia was born before 2015 — so the typical Nikolia is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 54.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Nikolia 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2015 (6)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Nikolia
Nikolia is not the most common spelling — Nikolas is, with 56.3% against Nikolia's 0.03%.
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.
Nikolia around the world
Where Nikolia 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 & Wales2016–2016#5,785in 2016
- South Australia1984–1984#661in 1984
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nikolia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Nikolia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nikolia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.