# Nicolaus (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nicolaus/  
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 | 1,141 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,141 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 21 | 4,464 |
| 2007 | 28 | 3,765 |
| 2008 | 21 | 4,660 |
| 2009 | 22 | 4,547 |
| 2010 | 19 | 4,977 |
| 2011 | 17 | 5,365 |
| 2012 | 11 | 7,396 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,568 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8,598 |
| 2015 | 12 | 6,968 |
| 2017 | 15 | 5,988 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,746 |
| 2019 | 10 | 8,042 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,581 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,721 |

## People named Nicolaus

- Nicolaus Otto, German inventor (1832–1891)
- Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Austrian naturalist (1735-1805)
- Nicolaus Bruhns, Danish-German organist and composer
- Nicolaus von Below, German luftwaffe officer (1907-1983)
- Nicolaus Michael Oppel, German naturalist
- Johann Nicolaus Bach, German composer (1669–1753)
- Nicolaus Thomas Host, Austrian botanist and physician (1761-1834)
- Nicolaus Adam Strungk, German composer and violinist (1640–1700)
- Nicolaus Mulerius, Dutch astronomer and medical academic
- Nicolaus Schmidt, German artist
- Nicolaus Germanus, German cartographer (1420–1490)
- Nicolaus Fest, German journalist and politician

## 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.