Nikolay

maleStatistical record

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

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

Nikolay: Recorded since 1959, it reached #294 in 2005, and it stood at #2,263 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
61times a registrar ranked it
66years from first to last
#294highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2008–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#2775
2010	#2941
2011	#2892
2012	#3039
2013	#2403
2014	#2690
2015	#1586
2016	#2804
2017	#1703
2018	#1533
2019	#1745
2020	#1431
2021	#1250
2022	#1314
2023	#2160
2024	#2263

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 45 of the 61 years from 1959 to 2019.

In 2019: #475 among boys in Norway, #1745 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1959–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1959
First recorded at #474 among boys in Norway in 1959 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1959–2019
Highest recorded position: #294 among boys in Norway, in 2005 (recorded 1959–2019).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2263 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Nikolay appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 45 years beginning in 1959, and has registered 310 births with the name.

Nikolay 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.

Nikolay'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	#474 (1959)	#294 (2005)	#475 (2019)	45 of 61	310 (1959–2019)	14 (1978)
England and Wales · Boys	#2775 (2008)	#1250 (2021)	#2263 (2024)	16 of 17	182 (2008–2024)	21 (2021)

Nikolay 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 Nikolay in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	4	1 of 10	4
1960s	22	5 of 10	4
1970s	28	4 of 10	7
1980s	46	7 of 10	7
1990s	58	9 of 10	6
2000sbusiest	93	10 of 10	9
2010s	59	9 of 10	7

Across Norway · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 9 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Nikolay 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 1959 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #294 in Norway in 2005.

Nikolay'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	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1314	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1250	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1431	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1703	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1586	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#475	5	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#483	5	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#387	9	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#466	6	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#437	7	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#548	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#518	5	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#367	10	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#429	8	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#388	10	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#426	8	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#395	9	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#320	12	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#294	13	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#419	7	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#341	11	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#299	12	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#466	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#522	5	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#321	12	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#479	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#587	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#535	5	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#463	7	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#600	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#557	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#591	5	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#422	10	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#472	8	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#506	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#589	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#547	6	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#593	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#412	10	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#593	5	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#540	6	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#322	14	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#614	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#606	4	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#579	4	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#457	6	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#516	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#501	4	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#486	4	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#474	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 1959 and 2024, ranked in 51 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #294, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 49 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.

Nikolaos · #727, 27y
Nikolas · #177, 40y
Nikole · #444, 25y
Nikoline · #103, 36y

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.

Ailin · #298, 52y
Faisal · #288, 49y
Jeanne · #284, 47y
Muna · #279, 53y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Kestutis · #293, 33y
Bjørge · #296, 27y
Nada · #292, 46y
Liz · #291, 46y

Nikolay was ranked #294 in Norway · Boys in 2005. 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.

Nikolay 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 Nikolay without appearing here.

Nikolay moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2263 and #5119.
Espen Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3039 and #3039 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2403 and #4685.
Garry Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2403 and #2216 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2690 and #4632.
Ole Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1745 and #1745 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1250 and #3017.

Moved ahead of Nikolay

Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2941 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #2892 and #1398.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1314 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #1461.
Sebastian Compare
In 1971 they stood at #579 and #586 in Norway · Boys; by 1972 that had become #606 and #226.
Rune Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1314 and #1609 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #1799.

Moved the opposite way to Nikolay

Kasper Compare
Between 1978 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Nikolay went from #322 to #475 while Kasper went from #486 to #31.
Luca Compare
Between 1978 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Nikolay went from #322 to #475 while Luca went from #572 to #127.
Lukas Compare
Between 1978 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Nikolay went from #322 to #475 while Lukas went from #573 to #32.
Ryan Compare
Between 1978 and 2019 in Norway · Boys, Nikolay went from #322 to #475 while Ryan went from #535 to #265.

What's not yet available

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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 1959 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #294 in Norway in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nikolay

Nikolay at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nikolay across 2 official records

Nikolay by decade in Norway · Boys

Nikolay appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Nikolay and the names beside it

Nikolay moved ahead of

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Nikolay at a glance

Nikolay across 2 official records

Nikolay by decade in Norway · Boys

Nikolay appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Nikolay

Nikolay and the names beside it

Nikolay moved ahead of

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