Given name & surname
Niclas
Niclas is a masculine given name. It is used in German and Swedish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Niclas is a form of Niklas. Niklas comes from German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Niclas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 80
- 80 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 8 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 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1999. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 231 as a first name in 2020; 101 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.
Niclas’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Niclas has a diminutive in NICKE. In Swedish usage, Niclas has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Nicola. In Swedish usage, Niclas has a conventional equivalent in the German form Nikolaus.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Niclas 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 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Niclas
- Niclas FüllkrugGerman association football player (1993)
- Niclas AlexanderssonSwedish footballerborn 1971
- Niclas JensenDanish footballerborn 1974
- Niclas EkbergSwedish handball playerborn 1988
- Niclas KirkeløkkeDanish handball playerborn 1994
- Niclas NylénSwedish footballerborn 1966
- Niclas EngelinSwedish guitaristborn 1972
- Niclas BergforsSwedish ice hockey playerborn 1987
- Niclas AndersénSwedish ice hockey playerborn 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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