# Nicolaas (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nicolaas/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 404 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 404 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | 9,336 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,654 |
| 2005 | 14 | 5,795 |
| 2006 | 9 | 8,539 |
| 2007 | 7 | 10,562 |
| 2008 | 11 | 7,564 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,651 |
| 2010 | 8 | 9,421 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,854 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,672 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,491 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,478 |
| 2016 | 9 | 8,618 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,468 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,609 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | 2,870 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |

## People named Nicolaas

- Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-born American physicist
- Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Dutch botanist
- Nicolaas Beets, Dutch theologian, professor, writer and poet, also known as Hildebrand (1814-1903)
- Nicolaas Pierson, Dutch politician (1839-1909)
- Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Dutch mathematician (1918-2012)
- Nicolaas Pieneman, Dutch painter (1809-1860)
- Nicolaas Tates, Canoe racer (1915-1990)
- Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist (1882-1945)
- Nicolaas Kuiper, Dutch mathematician (1920–1994)
- Nicolaas van Wijk, Dutch linguist
- Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck, Dutch philosopher (1887–1954)
- Nicolaas van Eyck, Flemish painter (1617-1679)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.