Nicolaïdes
surname · Latin script
Nicolaïdes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Nikolaos (see Nicholas). The -ides patronymic is classical, and was revived in the 19th century, in particular by Greeks from the Black Sea area.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 825K
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 764K (inferred from the name graph)
403 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nicolaides in US United States, FR France and Nicolaïdès in BE Belgium.
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)
patronymic from the personal name Nikolaos (see Nicholas). The -ides patronymic is classical, and was revived in the 19th century, in particular by Greeks from the Black Sea area.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nicolaïdes 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 | 403 | 1 in 825K | 409 | Nicolaides | 35 |
| AR Argentina | 12 | 1 in 3.8M | 12 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 11M | 8 | Nicolaides | 81 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | Nicolaïdès | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
403 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 does the name Nicolaïdes mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Nikolaos (see Nicholas). The -ides patronymic is classical, and was revived in the 19th century, in particular by Greeks from the Black Sea area. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Nicolaïdes have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 403 people named Nicolaïdes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nicolaides.
- Where is Nicolaïdes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nicolaïdes is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 764 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nicolaïdes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 403 people named Nicolaïdes in 2010, about 1 in 825 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nicola%C3%AFdesThe 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, “Nicolaïdes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.