Nikolas

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Icelandic
Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Nikolás

Related Names

See Nikolás

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Nikolasarson
Nikolasson

Female

Nikolasardóttir
Nikolasdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Nikolas
Genitive:	Nikolas'

- Faroese
Nominative:	Nikolas
Accusative:	Nikolas
Dative:	Nikolasi
Genitive:	Nikolasar

- Finnish
Nominative:	Nikolas
Genitive:	Nikolaksen
Partitive:	Nikolasta

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Nikolas
Accusative:	Nikolas
Dative:	Nikolasi
Genitive:	Nikolasar

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Nikolas
Genitive:	Nikolas'

- Swedish
Nominative:	Nikolas
Genitive:	Nikolas' / Nikolas

Name Day

Finland

6 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: 1363 (Romedal)
• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 16 August 2002

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1960-
• Norway: 1995-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden: Östsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 23 people were named Nikolas (percentage of first or only given name: 22 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Finland		n.a.	1754	0	0	n.a.	1754
Sweden		375	541	2	2	373	539
Denmark		388	n.a.	0	n.a.	388	n.a.
Iceland		12	13	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	3	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		540	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	540	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

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