Nikolaus is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Nikolaus is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Nikolaus. In the SmartGenius ranking, Nikolaus is #3,381 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 Nikolaus.
Nikolaus is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Nikolaus - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 981 in 1980. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Nikolaus really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nikolaus was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
24 babies were named Nikolaus in 2022 - that's 1 in 6,726,083 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Nikolaus ranked 3,736 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds of having a man or boy named Nikolaus in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Nikolaus is registered in 17 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Illinois. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Nikolaus live in California, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 52,012 men and boys in California for their name before you meet one who answers with Nikolaus.
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 Nikolaus 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 Nikolaus 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 Nikolaus, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Koala
Orange
Lion
Apple
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nikolaus
Nikolaus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
I
K
O
L
A
U
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
U
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. Nikolaus sounds like this:
