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How popular is “Nikolas” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nikolas” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Nikolas” 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 “Nikolas” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nikolas” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nikolas” 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
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 -100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 -100%
1967 14 0.000004124 14 -100%
1968 20 0.00000592 20 -100%
1969 32 0.000009208 32 -100%
1970 18 0.000004991 18 -100%
1971 23 0.000006701 23 -100%
1972 30 0.000009545 30 -100%
1973 31 0.000010275 31 -100%
1974 35 0.000011513 35 -100%
1975 41 0.000013579 41 -100%
1976 28 0.000009228 28 -100%
1977 56 0.000017629 56 -100%
1978 109 0.000034343 109 -100%
1979 132 0.000039675 132 -100%
1980 127 0.00003687 127 -100%
1981 133 0.000038446 133 -100%
1982 136 0.000038769 136 -100%
1983 149 0.000043022 149 -100%
1984 169 0.000048441 169 -100%
1985 185 0.000051834 185 -100%
1986 201 0.000056507 201 -100%
1987 216 0.000059907 216 -100%
1988 289 0.000078213 289 -100%
1989 355 0.000092341 5 350 -97%
1990 438 0.000110817 438 -100%
1991 418 0.00010731 418 -100%
1992 443 0.000115326 443 -100%
1993 458 0.000121476 458 -100%
1994 492 0.000132342 492 -100%
1995 487 0.000132982 487 -100%
1996 599 0.000164236 599 -100%
1997 718 0.000198028 718 -100%
1998 1007 0.000273775 1007 -100%
1999 885 0.000239586 885 -100%
2000 739 0.000195508 739 -100%
2001 747 0.000199552 747 -100%
2002 745 0.000199289 745 -100%
2003 795 0.000209083 795 -100%
2004 1065 0.000278728 5 1060 -99%
2005 903 0.00023486 5 898 -99%
2006 780 0.000197159 780 -100%
2007 741 0.000185357 741 -100%
2008 674 0.000171472 674 -100%
2009 633 0.000165699 633 -100%
2010 591 0.000159914 591 -100%
2011 562 0.000153645 562 -100%
2012 550 0.000150381 550 -100%
2013 520 0.000142635 520 -100%
2014 495 0.000133554 495 -100%
2015 497 0.000134291 497 -100%
2016 498 0.000135743 498 -100%
2017 463 0.000129467 463 -100%
2018 502 0.00014278 502 -100%
2019 454 0.000130801 454 -100%
2020 453 0.000135605 453 -100%
2021 477 0.000140793 477 -100%
2022 475 0.000140402 475 -100%
2023 422 0.000127446 422 -100%
2024 361 0.000108457 361 -100%

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