Nicolai

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nicolai: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nicolai: Recorded since 1960, it reached #76 in 2007, and it stood at #171 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
80times a registrar ranked it
66years from first to last
#76highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2357
1999	#2943
2003	#3467
2005	#3849
2006	#2538
2008	#3687
2009	#3227
2010	#4678
2012	#3416
2013	#3822
2014	#2690
2015	#3908
2017	#3449
2018	#4749
2019	#2488
2021	#4789
2022	#4001
2023	#3523
2024	#3254

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 61 of the 66 years from 1960 to 2025.

In 2024: #178 among boys in Norway, #3254 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1960–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1960
First recorded at #485 among boys in Norway in 1960 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1960–2025
Highest recorded position: #76 among boys in Norway, in 2007 (recorded 1960–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #171 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Nicolai appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 61 years beginning in 1960, and has registered 3,079 births with the name.

Nicolai across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Nicolai's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#485 (1960)	#76 (2007)	#171 (2025)	61 of 66	3,079 (1960–2025)	114 (2007)
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#2357 (1996)	#3254 (2024)	19 of 29	85 (1996–2024)	8 (2019)

Nicolai by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Nicolai in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	31	6 of 10	5
1970s	130	9 of 10	14
1980s	358	10 of 10	36
1990s	642	10 of 10	64
2000sbusiest	941	10 of 10	94
2010s	773	10 of 10	77
2020s	204	6 of 10	34

Across Norway · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 94 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1992 and 1993, when recorded births rose by 28, from 57 to 85.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Nicolai appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1960 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #76 in Norway in 2007.

Nicolai's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#171	29	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#178	28	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#218	22	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#138	40	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#156	32	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#106	53	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#137	43	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#125	50	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#103	68	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#94	82	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#89	90	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#103	73	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#91	86	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#89	90	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#90	95	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#91	96	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#100	85	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#83	104	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#76	114	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#89	93	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#87	97	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#79	99	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#79	97	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#82	88	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#84	83	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#97	81	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#110	66	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#117	61	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#125	60	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#104	72	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#129	56	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#116	62	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#86	85	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#121	57	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#117	63	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#125	60	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#128	60	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#130	61	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#140	53	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#180	38	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#174	39	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#244	22	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#264	20	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#209	30	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#229	22	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#345	13	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#359	12	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#369	12	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#267	18	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#216	26	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#289	16	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#292	16	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#315	14	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#424	9	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#466	7	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#483	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#509	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#397	8	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#542	4	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#515	4	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#485	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1960 and 2025, ranked in 61 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #76, first reached in 2007.

It held a top-100 place in 17 years, 14 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 114 births, registered in Norway in 2007.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 36 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Nicola · #2, 68y
Nicolae · #660, 15y
Nicolas · #148, 53y
Nicolay · #151, 48y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Edmond · #77, 60y
Anny · #79, 56y
Lotte · #73, 64y
Dolores · #80, 56y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Aisha · #76, 52y
Ashling · #76, 53y
Ine · #76, 63y
Rossa · #76, 48y

Nicolai was ranked #76 in Norway · Boys in 2007. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nicolai and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nicolai without appearing here.

Nicolai moved ahead of

Brooke Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2690 and #4632.
Morten Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4678 and #3865 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2690 and #4632.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.
Jade Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.

Moved ahead of Nicolai

Gunnar Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2488 and #2728 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #4789 and #1860.
Theodor Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2538 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #3687 and #1828.
Hudson Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2357 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2943 and #1850.
Aksel Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2538 and #4052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #3687 and #3158.

Moved the opposite way to Nicolai

Anders Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Nicolai went from #485 to #171 while Anders went from #51 to #293.
Anthony Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Nicolai went from #485 to #171 while Anthony went from #320 to #451.
Arild Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Nicolai went from #485 to #171 while Arild went from #27 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Nicolai went from #485 to #171 while Arne went from #15 to #222.

Moved the same way as Nicolai

Adam Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Nicolai went from #485 to #171 and Adam from #228 to #29.
Adrian Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Nicolai went from #485 to #171 and Adrian from #469 to #70.
Aksel Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Nicolai went from #485 to #171 and Aksel from #207 to #25.
Alexander Compare
Between 1960 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Nicolai went from #485 to #171 and Alexander from #319 to #81.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1960 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #76 in Norway in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nicolai

Nicolai at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nicolai across 2 official records

Nicolai by decade in Norway · Boys

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Popularity data

What the record shows

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Nicolai at a glance

Nicolai across 2 official records

Nicolai by decade in Norway · Boys

Nicolai appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Nicolai

Nicolai and the names beside it

Nicolai moved ahead of

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