Niklas
Niklas is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200090 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1976
- 1,701people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,701 boys have been named Niklas in the United States since 1976, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 90 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 40%.
By decade
In 2000, its biggest year
Niklas was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Niklas
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dallinpeak 2002
- Traveonpeak 2003
- Devenpeak 2000
- Brendenpeak 2000
- Collinpeak 1996
- Brennenpeak 2009
- Collenpeak 1997
- Racepeak 2002
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.