Nicklaus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from German, from a variant of Nickolaus ‘Nicholas’
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Nicklaus is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 124K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 440Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 640Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 218 (measured from records)
- 1 in 124K (inferred from the name graph)
2,673 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from German, from a variant of Nickolaus ‘Nicholas’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nicklaus 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 | 2,673 | 1 in 124K | 2.7K | Nicklaus | 218 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Nicklaus | 18 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 559K | — | Nicklaus | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Nicklaus | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 767K | — | Nicklaus | 37 |
| SG Singapore | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Nicklaus | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 348K | 12 | Nicklaus | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Nicklaus | 3 |
2,673 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Nicklaus 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 English, Jack, US golfer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)- John Hooverb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player
- Nick Hagueb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican astronaut and space force officer
- Nick Thomas-Symondsb. 1980GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician
- Thomas Diamondb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player
- Nick Gardewineb. 1993USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player
- Nick Snyderb. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player
- Nick Madrigalb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional baseball player
- Nicklaus Sullivanb. 2002USAmerican soccer player
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 811 | #29,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 794 | #28,326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 770 | #32,101 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Nicklaus mean, and where does it come from?
- from German, from a variant of Nickolaus ‘Nicholas’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Nicklaus a male or female name?
- Nicklaus is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Nicklaus have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Nicklaus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nicklaus.
- Where is Nicklaus most common?
- Nicklaus is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 124 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nicklaus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,673 people named Nicklaus in 2020, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nicklausThe 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, “Nicklaus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.