Nicolasa
Feminine · “Victory of the people”
Spanish makes a feminine by changing the final vowel and English cannot do it at all. Nicolas becomes Nicolasa, Antonio becomes Antonia, Francisco becomes Francisca: one letter, applied by rule, with no borrowing and no thought required. English has to import a suffix every time.
How old is the name Nicolasa?
Nicolasa first appears in US birth records in 1891 — 134 years ago. The typical Nicolasa alive today was born around 1933, making them about 92 years old. About 500 people named Nicolasa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Nicolasa most popular?
Nicolasa peaked in 1894, reaching #1136 nationally. See the whole 1894 chart.
Where it comes from
From Nikolaos to Nicolasa
The story of Nicolasa
The saint of the name is the patron of sailors and of thieves at the same time. The sailors come from a story about him calming a storm on a voyage to the Holy Land, and Mediterranean ports are full of churches dedicated to him for that reason; the thieves come from English slang of the sixteenth century, in which highwaymen were called Saint Nicholas's clerks, apparently by association with the story about the bags of gold thrown through a window at night. Shakespeare uses the phrase and assumes his audience knows it. One legend about anonymous night-time gift-giving produced both the patron of pawnbrokers and a joke about robbery.
Meaning
Victory of the people
Greek nike, victory, and laos, the people. The Spanish feminine is formed mechanically from the masculine and adds nothing to the meaning, which is exactly the point: the operation is grammatical rather than lexical, and Spanish speakers do not experience it as making a new name.
How the name formed
- Nikolaos
- Nicolas
- Nicolasa
Related forms: Nicolasa · Nicolasa
Pronouncing Nicolasa
nee-koh-LAH-sah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. Spanish gives every vowel its full value, which is why the name sounds noticeably longer in Spanish than an English reader expects.
Nicknames for Nicolasa
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
- 1891
- Most girls named
- 192043 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1136reached in 1894
- Change vs 2008
- +20.0%6 in 2016, from 5
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.
Nicolasa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Nicolasa in Spanish — same name
- Nicolasa in Italian — same name
Nicolasas among us
people named Nicolasa are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Nicolasa 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
- It is a standard Spanish name formed by rule rather than an invention.
- Nico is a short, current, unisex everyday form available immediately.
- The meaning is transparent and can be given to a child in three words.
- Four syllables is a great deal of name and will be shortened by other people.
- English speakers will reduce the vowels and produce a noticeably different name.
- It is strongly dated in Spanish-speaking communities as well as in America.
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Frequently asked
- How many Nicolasas 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 Nicolasa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Nicolasa in 2025?
- Nicolasa is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Nicolasa with classmates?
- Nicolasa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More N names
The most-given names starting with N, all years combined.
Nancy#965 · Nicole#382 · Natalie#89 · Norma#2002 · Nora#20 · Naomi#47 · Nellie#533 · Nina#324
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