Given name & surname
Nicklas
“of the victorious people”
Nicklas is a variant of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nicklas is a variant of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Nicklas is a variant of Nicholas. An origin associated with Nicholas is Dutch.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Nicklas is a variant of Nicholas. The history of Nicholas gives this family its wider story. Nicholas’s Christian associations include Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop of Myra in Lycia, about whom virtually nothing factual is known.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Nicklas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,430
- 2,430 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 111 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,376 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −55%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,376 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 111 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,073 as a first name in 2020; 1,765 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.
Nicklas’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Nicklas has a diminutive in NICKE. Nicklas has a related form in Nicholas. In Swedish usage, Nicklas has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Nicola.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Nicklas has relatives in 4 languages.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Nicklas
- Nicklas BendtnerDanish association football playerborn 1988
- Nicklas PedersenDanish footballerborn 1987
- Nicklas LidströmSwedish ice hockey playerborn 1970
- Nicklas HeleniusDanish footballerborn 1991
- Nicklas BäckströmSwedish ice hockey playerborn 1987
- Nicklas BärkrothSwedish association football playerborn 1992
- Nicklas KultiSwedish tennis playerborn 1971
- Nicklas JensenDanish ice hockey player (born 1993)
- Nicklas NielsenDanish racing driverborn 1997
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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