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Nikolis

Boys' name

Transliteration of Νικολής

Nikolis has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 2001, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Nikolis, 2008

1 in 393,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nikolis: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Νικολής

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nikolis means

Nikolis is a transliteration of Νικολής.

Origin, language, and formation

Nikolis is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Νικολής.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 122 boys were recorded with the name Nikolis between 1986 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2001; its best national rank was #5,531 in 1992.

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 Nikolis?

Nikolis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 393,000
10 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only
1 in 204,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
272,458 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nikolis 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 2008 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 272,458 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikolis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nikoliss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikolis was born before 2001 — so the typical Nikolis is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
59.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
122
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 59.0% of all recorded uses (72).

Is Nikolis 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 2001 (12)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,531
1992

Spellings of Nikolis

Nikolis is not the most common spelling — Nicolas is, with 53.7% against Nikolis's 0.06%.

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.

Nikolis around the world

Where Nikolis 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
    1964–1964
    #557
    in 1964

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

Nikolis 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
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Best rank ever
#5,531
1992
Peak year
2001
12 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
122
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nikolis

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

NikolozNikodemNikolayNikalasNikolajNikolusNikanNikaiNikitasNikolosNikeshNikashNikkolasNikholasNikalusNikoliNikoaNicolisTrellisCharlisVasilisTalisNiklausMarcelis

Sibling names for Nikolis

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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