Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Miklos isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1959. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Miklos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 222
- 222 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1961. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 649 as a first name in 2020; 1,223 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Miklos’s family of names
Miklos may belong to the same name family as MIKKLOS. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Miklos
- Miklos MolnarDanish footballerborn 1970
- Miklos PerlusCanadian actorborn 1977
- Miklos GaálFinnish photographer (born 1974)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Miklos, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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>99% boys