Boy · Greek
Nicolas
Say it: nee-koh-LAH
Meaning
From Greek nikē 'victory' and laos 'people'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Common from the Middle Ages and a top French name in the 1970s–80s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 91,765 babies given this name since 1882
- At its height in 1998, about 1 in 654 boys
- 1,875 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
FrenchMexicanCentral AmericanAndeanArgentineCaribbeanSpanish
The family of the name
Other spellings: Nico
| English | Nicholas |
|---|---|
| Dutch | Nicolaas |
| Italian | Niccolò |
| Portuguese | Nicolau |
| Italian | Nicola |
Famous bearers
- Nicolas Poussin, painter
- Nicolas Fouquet, minister
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Where this comes from
- The Paris tax rolls of the 1290s
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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