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How popular is “Nicholaus” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nicholaus” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nicholaus” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Nicholaus” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Nicholaus” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Nicholaus” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Nicholaus” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nicholaus” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 13 0.000003741 13 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1971 20 0.000005827 20 -100%
1972 13 0.000004136 13 -100%
1973 20 0.000006629 20 -100%
1974 18 0.000005921 18 -100%
1975 25 0.00000828 25 -100%
1976 18 0.000005932 18 -100%
1977 44 0.000013852 44 -100%
1978 130 0.000040959 130 -100%
1979 167 0.000050195 167 -100%
1980 153 0.000044419 153 -100%
1981 168 0.000048564 168 -100%
1982 133 0.000037914 133 -100%
1983 107 0.000030895 107 -100%
1984 114 0.000032676 114 -100%
1985 102 0.000028579 102 -100%
1986 119 0.000033454 119 -100%
1987 80 0.000022188 80 -100%
1988 75 0.000020297 75 -100%
1989 104 0.000027052 104 -100%
1990 105 0.000026566 105 -100%
1991 105 0.000026956 105 -100%
1992 116 0.000030198 116 -100%
1993 102 0.000027054 102 -100%
1994 102 0.000027437 102 -100%
1995 104 0.000028399 104 -100%
1996 82 0.000022483 82 -100%
1997 87 0.000023995 87 -100%
1998 78 0.000021206 78 -100%
1999 88 0.000023823 88 -100%
2000 85 0.000022487 85 -100%
2001 62 0.000016563 62 -100%
2002 56 0.00001498 56 -100%
2003 41 0.000010783 41 -100%
2004 38 0.000009945 38 -100%
2005 45 0.000011704 45 -100%
2006 45 0.000011375 45 -100%
2007 38 0.000009506 38 -100%
2008 39 0.000009922 39 -100%
2009 19 0.000004974 19 -100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 -100%
2011 16 0.000004374 16 -100%
2012 22 0.000006015 22 -100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 -100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 -100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 -100%
2017 14 0.000003915 14 -100%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 9 0.000002694 9 -100%
2022 7 0.000002069 7 -100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 -100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 -100%

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