# Nikolaus (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nikolaus/  
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 | 2,656 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,656 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 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 | 28 | 3,761 |
| 2012 | 29 | 3,685 |
| 2013 | 25 | 4,030 |
| 2014 | 47 | 2,609 |
| 2015 | 22 | 4,505 |
| 2016 | 23 | 4,430 |
| 2017 | 27 | 3,949 |
| 2018 | 19 | 5,053 |
| 2019 | 33 | 3,472 |
| 2020 | 21 | 4,656 |
| 2021 | 33 | 3,471 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4,399 |
| 2023 | 15 | 6,138 |
| 2024 | 31 | 3,665 |
| 2025 | 24 | 4,346 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |

## People named Nikolaus

- Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher
- Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (1802-1850)
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor (1929–2016)
- Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, German general (1885-1968)
- Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British scholar (1902-1983)
- Johann Nikolaus Forkel, German musician, musicologist and music theorist (1749-1818)
- Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, German-Danish philosopher (1736-1807)
- Nikolaus Federmann, German explorer, conquistador and chronicler at the service of the crown of Castilla
- Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, Austrian entomologist
- Nikolaus Knüpfer, German-born Dutch painter (1609–1655)
- Nikolaus von Vormann, German General and Knight's Cross recipient (1895-1959)
- Nikolaus Decius, German hymnwriter (1485–1546)

## 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.