Nicklas

given name · Danish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nicklas is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Benin it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Danish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variant of Nickolaus.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 323◐
  • FIFinland1 in 527
  • ATAustria1 in 537

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈54K ●

across 11 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
233 ●

104K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 323 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

NiklasLatin · German●107K records
ΝικλαςGreek · Greek●0 records
니클라스Hangul · Korean●0 records

Locally spelled Niklas in DE Germany, SE Sweden, AT Austria and 18 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

variant of Nickolaus.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nicklas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#30571,96164K rec.—6Niklas233
SE Sweden#4831,62218K rec.1 in 32332KNiklas147
AT Austria#11530,8342K rec.—9.2KNiklas85
FI Finland—10,576△1.1K rec.1 in 52712KNicklas53
DK Denmark#1197,306△3.3K rec.1 in 8037.3KNicklas130
NO Norway#3402,359△1.1K rec.1 in 2.3K8.5KNiklas51
US United States—2,0709K rec.1 in 161K2.1KNiklas159
AU Australia—1,0241K rec.—1Niklas52
GB United Kingdom—829673 rec.——Niklas55
BJ Benin#10629523 rec.——Niklas7
IN India—553629 rec.——Niklas10
CH Switzerland—428388 rec.—20Niklas49

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Danish39K60%
  • English8.4K13%
  • Swedish4.8K7%
  • Norwegian Bokmål3.1K5%
  • Finnish3.1K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Danish39,37960%
English8,42013%
Swedish4,7777%
Norwegian Bokmål3,1165%
Finnish3,1065%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nicklas is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name34K records spelled Nicklas10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Sweden, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nicklaes, Níckläs, Nícklaes

42 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.

Over time●

050100150192019401960198020002020111 · 2002

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Nicklas in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1914–2025
Yearrecords
19145
19206
19238
19245
19445
19475
19495
19507
19515
19527
19547
19596
19626
19646
19657
19669
196811
196911
19709
19719
197216
197320
197417
197512
197615
197721
197837
197946
198042
198134
198235
198334
198435
198536
198640
198732
198842
198936
199051
199151
199268
199349
199459
199570
199656
199787
1998110
1999101
200095
200172
2002111
200378
200481
200550
200660
200754
200860
200963
201045
201146
201239
201331
201419
201522
201616
201725
201812
201912
202013
20218
202213
20237
20257

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 73 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Nicklas Lidström, b. 1970Nicklas Kulti, b. 1971Nicklas Nygren, b. 1983Nicklas Bäckström, b. 1987Nicklas Pedersen, b. 1987Nicklas Bendtner, b. 1988Nicklas Helenius, b. 1991Nicklas Bärkroth, b. 1992Nicklas Jensen, b. 1993Nicklas Nielsen, b. 1997

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 48 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Nicklas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—10K#392
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—7.3K#96
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20207.2K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—3.1K#829
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.1K#7,384
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102K#15,005
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.8K#14,755
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.8K#15,885
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024886—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025884—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2023879—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2022874—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 418 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nicklas?
We estimate roughly 54 thousand people bear Nicklas (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Nicklas have the most bearers?
Nicklas is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled niklas.
Where is Nicklas most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nicklas is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 323 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is Nicklas compared with other names?
In Germany, Nicklas is the 305th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Nicklas a male or female name?
Nicklas 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.
What does the name Nicklas mean?
Recorded meaning: variant of Nickolaus.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Nicklas” — the 305th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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