Niclas
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɪklas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Niclas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 731(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 3.4K
- FIFinland1 in 5.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 731 (inferred from the name graph)
13,965 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niclas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
13,965 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Niclas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Niclas Zajec. 1420.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Niclas Alexanderssonb. 1971SESwedish footballer
- Niclas Hävelidb. 1973SESwedish ice hockey player
- Niclas Jensenb. 1974DKDanish footballer
- Filip Bergb. 1986SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actor
- Niclas Ekbergb. 1988SESwedish handball player
- Niclas Huschenbethb. 1992DEGerman chess player
- Niclas Füllkrugb. 1993DEGerman association football player (1993)
- Niclas Kirkeløkkeb. 1994DKDanish handball player
- Niclas Eliassonb. 1995SESwedish association football player
- Benjaminb. 1997FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14K | #308 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 9.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 9.9K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 9.8K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.7K | #248 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.7K | #1,197 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.3K | #673 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.1K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 490 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2024 | 485 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2023 | 485 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2022 | 485 | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Niclas?
- In the etymology graph, Nicolas, Nicholas and Nick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Niclas?
- A machine transcription gives /nɪklas/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Niclas a male or female name?
- Niclas is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Niclas have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Niclas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niclas.
- Where is Niclas most common?
- Niclas is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 731 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Niclas?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 13,965 people named Niclas, about 1 in 731 residents.
- How common is Niclas compared with other names?
- In Benin, Niclas is the 551st most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Niclas?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niclasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Niclas” — the 551st most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.