Nickalas
Masculine · “A spelling of Nicholas”
Nickalas is Nicholas written the way it sounds, a spelling of the nineties. The name belongs to a Dickens hero who exposed a cruel school and to a stockbroker who quietly saved hundreds of children and told almost no one.
How old is the name Nickalas?
Nickalas first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Nickalas alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 600 people named Nickalas are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Nickalas most popular?
Nickalas peaked in 1996, reaching #2254 nationally. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Nikolaos to Nickalas
The story of Nickalas
In Nicholas Nickleby, published in 1838 and 1839, Dickens sent his hero to teach at Dotheboys Hall, a Yorkshire boarding school where unwanted boys were starved and beaten; the portrait was drawn from real schools Dickens had visited, and the public outcry helped close them. In 1939 Nicholas Winton, a young London stockbroker, organized trains that carried 669 mostly Jewish children from Prague to safety in Britain; he said nothing of it for nearly fifty years, until his wife found a scrapbook in the attic. Nickalas is one of the spellings American families used for Nicholas.
Meaning
A spelling of Nicholas, 'victory of the people'
From Greek Nikolaos, from nike, 'victory', and laos, 'people'.
How the name formed
- Nikolaos
- Nicholas
- Nickalas
Related forms: Nicholas · Nikolaos · Nicolás · Nikolai
Pronouncing Nickalas
NIK-uh-lus
Three syllables with the stress on the first, like Nicholas.
Nicknames for Nickalas
Limited
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
- 1976
- Most boys named
- 199636 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2254reached in 1996
- Change vs 2011
- +28.6%9 in 2012, from 7
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.
Nickalas in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Nicholas in English — spelling variant
- Nikolaos in Greek — same name
- Nicolás in Spanish — same name
- Nikolai in Russian — same name
Nickalass among us
people named Nickalas are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Fashion outlook
Nickalas sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Sounds exactly like Nicholas, a name everyone knows.
- Comes with Nick as a ready short form.
- A settled Greek meaning.
- Almost everyone will write Nicholas.
- Some will read the spelling as a mistake.
- It sounds like one of the commonest boys' names of its era.
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Frequently asked
- How many Nickalass are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Nickalas are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Nickalas in 2025?
- Nickalas is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Nickalas with classmates?
- Nickalas will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with N, all years combined.
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