Given name
Nicolasa
“of the victorious people”
Nicolasa is a feminine form of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nicolasa is a feminine form of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Nicolasa is a feminine form 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 1891. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Nicolasa is a feminine form 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
Nicolasa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,127
- 0 boys · 1,127 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 43 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 girls is 6 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 43 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,179 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nicolasa’s family of names
Nicolasa is a feminine form of Nicholas. In Spanish usage, Nicolasa has a conventional equivalent in the German form Nicole. In Spanish usage, Nicolasa has a conventional equivalent in the English form Nicola.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nicolasa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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