girls:
47 births since 1980
#5669 (1st percentile)
boys:
39.1k births since 1882
#572 (88th percentile)
overall:
39.2k births since 1882
#1257 (84th percentile)
The name Nickolas is the #1,257 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 39,165 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 83.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #572 (87.5% percentile) for all time with 39,118 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,669 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 1980.
Nickolas first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1980 for girls). Birth data for Nickolas is available in 130 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (130 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nickolas has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Nickolas reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 68.4% percentile (ranked #240) with 500 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 570 births per million (ranked 68.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Nickolas ranks #789 for boys (13.4% percentile) with 69 births per million, which is 12.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nickolas reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nickolas".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Nickolas", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 69 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Nicholas" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Nicholas..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nickolas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Nickolas is pronounced as NIH-kuh-luhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NIH-kuh-luhz, at 15.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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