Nicolâs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Nicolâs is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French. Nicolâs is also written Νικολαος in Greek, นิโคลัส in Thai and ნიკოლას in Georgian.
- FRFrance≈1 in 160(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 260
- ARArgentina≈1 in 270
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nicolâs itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #127 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 639 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 157 (inferred from the name graph)
711,305 named Nicholas, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Nicolâs in other scripts: Latin, Greek, Thai and 3 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Nicolas in FR France, BR Brazil, UY Uruguay, Nicholas in US United States, IT Italy, Νικολαος in GR Greece and Nicola in CZ Czechia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from French.
Cited for this meaning 10
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nicolâs 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #108 | 711,305as Nicholas | 1 in 468 | 710K | Nicholas | 639 |
| FR France | — | ≈440,000 est. | ≈1 in 157 | 406K | Nicolas | 127 |
| BR Brazil | #316 | 310,593 | 1 in 682 | 311K | Nicolas | 197 |
| IT Italy | #202 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 191 | 681 | Nicholas | 190 |
| GR Greece | #25 | 290,329as Νικόλαος | 1 in 37 | 570K | Νικολαος | 210 |
| CZ Czechia | #739 | 75,992as Nikola | 1 in 141 | 76K | Nicola | 63 |
| HR Croatia | — | 32,304as Nikola | 1 in 131 | 32K | — | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | #24 | 15,068as Νικολας | 1 in 84 | 15K | Nikolaos | 75 |
| UY Uruguay | #1 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 263 | 1 | Nicolas | 121 |
711,305 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); MVČR — living population register 2017; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nicolâs mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 8 other sources.
- Is Nicolâs a male or female name?
- Nicolâs 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Nicolâs?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 711 thousand people named Nicholas, more than in any other country we hold. After it come France, Brazil, Italy and Greece; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nicolâs?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 310,593 people named Nicolâs in 2022, about 1 in 682 residents.
- How common is Nicolâs compared with other names?
- In the United States, Nicolâs is the 108th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nicol%C3%A2sThe 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, “Nicolâs” — ranked 49th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.