# Niklas (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/niklas/  
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 | 1,711 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,711 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 115, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 3,577 |
| 2012 | 35 | 3,220 |
| 2013 | 45 | 2,656 |
| 2014 | 24 | 4,222 |
| 2015 | 24 | 4,251 |
| 2016 | 25 | 4,171 |
| 2017 | 29 | 3,744 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,594 |
| 2019 | 15 | 6,024 |
| 2020 | 12 | 6,916 |
| 2021 | 20 | 4,886 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8,138 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,723 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,660 |
| 2025 | 10 | 8,060 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | 2,070 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2,754 |
| 2006 | 14 | 1,401 |
| 2007 | 5 | 3,095 |
| 2008 | 6 | 2,775 |
| 2009 | 6 | 2,837 |
| 2010 | 6 | 2,941 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Niklas

- Niklas Süle, German association football player (born 1995)
- Niklas Moisander, Finnish footballer
- Niklas Landin Jacobsen, Danish handball player
- Niklas Stark, German footballer
- Niklas Dorsch, German footballer
- Niklas Larsen, Danish cyclist, born 1997
- Niklas Hagman, Finnish ice hockey player
- Niklas Kaul, German decathlete
- Niklas Hedl, Austrian association football player
- Jan-Niklas Beste, German footballer
- Niklas Bäckström, Finnish ice hockey player
- Niklas Lomb, German footballer

## 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.