Miklo
Masculine · “victory of the people”
Miklo is a Slavic form of Nicholas — victory of the people — and it reached American use largely through one 1993 film.
How old is the name Miklo?
Miklo first appears in US birth records in 1994 — 31 years ago. The typical Miklo is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Miklo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Miklo most popular?
Miklo peaked in 2025, reaching #2363 nationally. Today it ranks #2363, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Nikolaos to Miklo
Our story of Miklo
Our story of Miklo is a story of a name arriving through a screen. Hungarian Miklós and Slavic Miklo are genuine forms of Nicholas, whose Greek means victory of the people. A 1993 film about East Los Angeles gave the name to a central character, and the American registers show it from that year onward, chiefly in Mexican-American families. The Slavic name is old; this use of it is thirty years old.
Meaningscholars disagree
victory of the people
Generally a form of Nicholas, from the Greek nike, 'victory', and laos, 'people', through Slavic Miklos or Hungarian Miklós. The American given name's route is chiefly through a 1993 film character. The Greek is documented; the descent for American use is not.
How the name formed
- Nikolaos
- Miklós
- Miklo
Related forms: Miklós · Mikuláš · Nicholas
Pronouncing Miklo
MEEK-loh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Hungarian Miklós stresses the first too.
Nicknames for Miklo
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1994
- Most boys named
- 202558 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2363reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +13.7%58 in 2025, from 51
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Miklo in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Miklós in Hungarian — related form
- Mikuláš in Slovak — related form
- Nicholas in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Colorado.
Miklos among us
people named Miklo are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 29,450 born in 2025 was named Miklo
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Trevell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Miklo's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Trevell climbed just as high around 1992, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Trevell's path sketches the road Miklo is walking now.
Miklo sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Miklo is headed
Miklo looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 36% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Miklo beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Miklo in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The victory-of-the-people meaning is transparent and strong.
- Nicholas is available as a full formal equivalent.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- One 1993 film dominates the American association.
- Miklós is the standard Hungarian form.
- It will need spelling out every time.
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Masculine · #2363 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Miklos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Miklo are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Miklo in 2025?
- Miklo ranks #2363 among US boy names in 2025, with 58 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Miklo?
- About 1 in every 29,450 US boys born in 2025 was named Miklo — 58 in all.
- Will my child share the name Miklo with classmates?
- Miklo will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Miklo
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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