Nykolas
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nykolas has been given to 314 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 2007, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Nykolas, 2021
1 in 678,000
Nykolas 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nykolas?
Nykolas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nykolas sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nykolas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nykolass were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nykolas was born before 2005 — so the typical Nykolas is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 314
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.6% of all recorded uses (159).
Is Nykolas 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 2007 (24)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.8% average annual change
Spellings of Nykolas
Nykolas is not the most common spelling — Nicolas is, with 54.3% against Nykolas's 0.17%.
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 Nykolas is used
Across 1910–2025, Nykolas was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
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. Nykolas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Nykolas around the world
Where Nykolas 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.
- Canada2009–2009#2,692in 2009
- South Australia2012–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nykolas by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nykolas
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nykolas
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.