Nik'S

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Nik'S is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded in 1601. Short form of Nikolajs and Niklāvs.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 88K
  • DKDenmark1 in 345K

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.

Latvia (measured from records)

1,669 people

Record sources
44 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Niks in LV Latvia.

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)

First recorded in 1601. Short form of Nikolajs and Niklāvs.

Cited for this meaning 1

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Nik'S 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.

Where Nik'S is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia1,6691 in 1.1K1.7KNiks28
DK Denmark171 in 345K17——
SE Sweden121 in 850K12——
PL Poland51 in 7.7M8——
IS Iceland41 in 88K4——
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2——

1,669 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Nik'S is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Chinese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Niks

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Latvia

    Also written Niks

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nik'S under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nik'S mean, and where does it come from?
First recorded in 1601. Short form of Nikolajs and Niklāvs. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Nik'S have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Nik'S, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niks.
Where is Nik'S most common?
Nik'S is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Nik'S?
In Latvia, the national register counted 1,669 people named Nik'S, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.

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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, “Nik'S”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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