# Nikolay (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nikolay/  
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 | 507 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 507 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 189, 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 | 21 | 4,617 |
| 2012 | 19 | 4,987 |
| 2013 | 27 | 3,826 |
| 2014 | 29 | 3,667 |
| 2015 | 27 | 3,958 |
| 2016 | 15 | 5,976 |
| 2017 | 19 | 5,058 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,595 |
| 2019 | 17 | 5,497 |
| 2020 | 17 | 5,400 |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,709 |
| 2022 | 17 | 5,572 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,490 |
| 2024 | 20 | 5,000 |
| 2025 | 14 | 6,342 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2,690 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,586 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2,804 |
| 2017 | 14 | 1,703 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1,533 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 17 | 1,431 |
| 2021 | 21 | 1,250 |
| 2022 | 20 | 1,314 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,263 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2,952 |

## People named Nikolay

- Nikolay Chkheidze, Georgian politician (1864-1926)
- Nikolay Mihaylov, Bulgarian association football player
- Nikolay Okhlopkov, actor, theatre director (1900–1967)
- Nikolay Iliev, Bulgarian footballer
- Nikolay Bukhalov, Canoe racer
- Nikolay Bazhukov, cross-country skier
- Nikolai Nikolayevich Komlichenko, footballer
- Nikolay Antonov, Bulgarian athletics competitor (born 1968)
- Nikolay Bodurov, Bulgarian footballer
- Nikolay Smaga, athletics competitor (1938-1981)
- Nikolay Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (born 1987)
- Nikolay Nenovsky, Bulgarian economist

## 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.