Nikolaos is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Nikolaos is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Nikolaos. In the SmartGenius ranking, Nikolaos is #2,395 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nikolaos.
In fact, the name Nikolaos hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Nikolaos wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1979, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,202, 48 parents chose it in 1979 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Nikolaos, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nikolaos was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Nikolaos a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 2,409, for a total of 48 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Nikolaos seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Nikolaos. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 679 Americans who bear this name. And these 679 men and boys named Nikolaos live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois and Massachusetts. In the other 40 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Nikolaos lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Nikolaos and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Nikolaos relative to its male population is New York. And even there, only one male in 31,444 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Nikolaos.
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 eight letters, the name Nikolaos is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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.
If your name is Nikolaos 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nikolaos, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Koala
Orange
Lion
Apple
Orange
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nikolaos
Nikolaos
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
I
K
O
L
A
O
S
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
O
S
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. Nikolaos sounds like this:
