Nicholas

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: French

Meaning

Nicholas is a male name, the Anglophone version of an ancient Greek name in use since antiquity, and cognate with the modern Greek ฮฮนฮบฯŒฮปฮฑฮฟฯ‚, Nikolaos. It originally derived from a combination of two Greek words meaning 'victory' and 'people'.

From Wikipedia

Nicholas first appears in the data in 1956 and has been recorded in 58 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1993 with 23 babies (rank #512 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Nicholas

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Nicholas yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

486
Total babies (all years)
58
Years in the data
23
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19561#865
19571#905
19581#956
19591#899
19601#1,009
19611#968
19621#1,043
19632#922
19642#911
19654#771
19666#695
19673#885
19683#907
19692#1,005
19702#999
19723#916
19732#1,003
19742#1,006
19756#744
19764#879
19776#750
19784#892
19797#719
19806#786
198112#597
19825#856
198310#644
19848#718
19857#765
19868#754
198712#631
198818#543
198921#520
199017#580
199114#634
199219#565
199323#512
199414#655
199515#625
199620#554
199720#557
199813#680
199912#708
20009#811
200118#590
200218#588
200312#718
200411#745
20057#879
200613#666
200711#701
20089#779
20098#809
20108#808
20117#824
20126#878
20136#890
20154#19