# Nicolas (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nicolas/  
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 | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈnɪ.kə.ləs/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 101,764 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 101,585 / 179 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,940, 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 14 | 5,809 |
| 1989 | 8 | 9,381 |
| 1990 | 6 | 12,431 |
| 1991 | 10 | 8,414 |
| 1992 | 10 | 8,533 |
| 1993 | 5 | 15,069 |
| 1995 | 7 | 11,389 |
| 1997 | 5 | 15,419 |
| 2000 | 5 | 16,840 |
| 2001 | 9 | 10,768 |
| 2003 | 9 | 11,079 |
| 2004 | 8 | 12,431 |
| 2006 | 5 | 19,239 |
| 2007 | 6 | 17,028 |
| 2017 | 5 | 17,726 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,242 | 168 |
| 2012 | 2,131 | 180 |
| 2013 | 2,129 | 191 |
| 2014 | 2,077 | 196 |
| 2015 | 1,998 | 202 |
| 2016 | 2,085 | 194 |
| 2017 | 1,919 | 206 |
| 2018 | 2,098 | 195 |
| 2019 | 2,145 | 181 |
| 2020 | 1,894 | 202 |
| 2021 | 2,009 | 189 |
| 2022 | 1,989 | 191 |
| 2023 | 1,901 | 192 |
| 2024 | 1,997 | 184 |
| 2025 | 2,053 | 177 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 147 | 303 |
| 2012 | 146 | 311 |
| 2013 | 152 | 293 |
| 2014 | 165 | 283 |
| 2015 | 183 | 276 |
| 2016 | 197 | 267 |
| 2017 | 182 | 283 |
| 2018 | 176 | 285 |
| 2019 | 196 | 252 |
| 2020 | 188 | 253 |
| 2021 | 185 | 257 |
| 2022 | 183 | 256 |
| 2023 | 142 | 310 |
| 2024 | 128 | 343 |
| 2025 | 115 | 363 |

## People named Nicolas

- Nicolas Sarkozy, 23rd president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012
- Nicolas Cage, American actor (born 1964)
- Nicolas Poussin, French painter (1594-1665)
- Nicolas Appert, French inventor of airtight food preservation (1749–1841)
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (1636–1711)
- Nicolas Carnot, French physicist (1796–1832)
- Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet, French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743–1794)
- Nicolas Anelka, French football manager (born 1979)
- Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer
- Nicolas Chamfort, French journalist and moralistic author
- Nicolás Otamendi, Argentine association football player
- Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher

## 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.