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How popular is the name Nikolai?
Births per year, rank history and how many Nikolais are alive today.
Nikolai (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 1226th in 2025 and given to 23 babies. The name peaked in 2019, when 33 babies were given the name, the 894th most popular that year. Common short forms of Nikolai include Cole.
The Nikolai you are most likely to meet is around 6 years old. Half of all Nikolais born in England and Wales are between 6 and 20, and there are at least 540 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Nikolai - on average, only one in every 562 such rooms contains a Nikolai.
How many babies are named Nikolai each year?
Where does Nikolai rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Nikolai most popular?
Nikolai peaked in 2019, when 33 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Nikolai?
At least 540 people named Nikolai born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Nikolai?
Most living Nikolais are between 6 and 20; the most common age is about 6.
Is Nikolai becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.