Name meaning & stats
Nikolai
Nikolai. 11,027 US babies since 1940, peak 2016.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 2016
11,027 US babies were named Nikolai between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Nikolai (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 72% of the family
- Nikolai 72%
- Nicolai 12%
- Nikoli 4%
- Nickolai 3%
- Nikolay 3%
- Nicoli 3%
- Nickoli 2%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2016)