# Nikolas (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nikolas/  
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 | 24,050 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 24,035 / 15 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,380, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | 13,853 |
| 2004 | 5 | 18,051 |
| 2005 | 5 | 18,420 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 562 | 475 |
| 2012 | 550 | 487 |
| 2013 | 520 | 514 |
| 2014 | 495 | 557 |
| 2015 | 497 | 566 |
| 2016 | 499 | 566 |
| 2017 | 463 | 589 |
| 2018 | 502 | 553 |
| 2019 | 454 | 603 |
| 2020 | 453 | 604 |
| 2021 | 477 | 585 |
| 2022 | 475 | 595 |
| 2023 | 422 | 650 |
| 2024 | 362 | 729 |
| 2025 | 375 | 719 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 51 | 647 |
| 2012 | 46 | 719 |
| 2013 | 49 | 676 |
| 2014 | 62 | 574 |
| 2015 | 74 | 523 |
| 2016 | 60 | 597 |
| 2017 | 63 | 591 |
| 2018 | 75 | 520 |
| 2019 | 87 | 463 |
| 2020 | 92 | 436 |
| 2021 | 95 | 439 |
| 2022 | 86 | 465 |
| 2023 | 73 | 530 |
| 2024 | 54 | 678 |
| 2025 | 52 | 687 |

## People named Nikolas

- Nikolas Nartey, Danish association football player
- Nikolas Ioannou, Cypriot professional footballer
- Nikolas Ledgerwood, Canadian association football player
- Nikolas Cruz, American mass shooter and former student of Stoneman Douglas High School
- Nikolas Matinpalo, Finnish ice hockey player
- Nikolas Veratschnig, Austrian association footballer
- Nikolas Sattlberger, Austrian association football player
- Nikolas Polster, Austrian footballer
- Nikolas Rose, British sociologist
- Nikolas Ferreira, Brazilian politician, federal deputy of Minas Gerais, brazilian state since 2023
- Nikolas Papadopoulos, Cypriot politician (born 1973)
- Nicolaas van Wijk, Dutch linguist

## 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.