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NAMES LIKE NICHOLAS
Same rise and fall as Nicholas, around the same years.
WHERE NICHOLAS IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Nicholas ranked highest in New Jersey (#61) and lowest in Iowa (#657). 7 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Nicholas name popularity
Nicholas has been given to 929,199 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1995, when 29,216 babies got the name, and its best rank was #6 in 1997.
In 2025, 3,123 babies were named Nicholas (#196 in the country), 89% below the peak. That is down 50% from 2015.
Almost every Nicholas is a boy.
An estimated 861K people named Nicholas are alive in the US today, with a median age of 33.
It was a top-100 name in 39 of the 146 years on record.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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