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The first name 
Nikola

Nikola is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.

Nikola is a well-known but special name!

Nikola is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1247 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,246 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nikola.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Nikola

Nikola -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Nikola did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Nikola seemed to be more popular than ever in 2015. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,103, 157 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Nikola, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Nikola was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Nikola in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Nikola a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #1,271 - with a total of 133 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Nikola -
at home in half of America

The odds that a man or boy named Nikola lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Nikola in 21 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Illinois. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Nikola live in Illinois – here, one in 19,928 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 106,051 will turn around if you call his first name Nikola.

Nikola has 6 letters 
and begins with an N

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.0% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an N. This means that N as the first letter for boys' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With six letters, the name Nikola is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, if 3.0% of all boys’ names start with an N, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with N that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Nicholas.

Other names with 
N, i, k, o, l and a

If you take all the letters in the name Nikola – N, i, k, o, l and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Lonika or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Nikola

If your name is Nikola and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Nikola

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nikola, you can simply say:

Nut

Igloo

Koala

Orange

Lion

Apple

This is how the name Nikola is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Nikola in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Nikola

Nikola

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Nikola

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Nikola is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

N
I
K
O
L
A

Have you ever waved the name Nikola

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

N
I
K
O
L
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nikola sounds like this: