Nikolas

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Nikolás [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Nikolás

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Nikolasarson Faroe Islands Iceland
Nikolasson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Nikolasardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland
Nikolasdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Nikolas
Genitive: Nikolas'
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Nikolas
Accusative: Nikolas
Dative: Nikolasi
Genitive: Nikolasar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Nikolas
Genitive: Nikolaksen
Partitive: Nikolasta
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Nikolas
Accusative: Nikolas
Dative: Nikolasi
Genitive: Nikolasar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Nikolas
Genitive: Nikolas'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Nikolas
Genitive: Nikolas' / Nikolas

Name Day

Finland Finland

6 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 23 people were named Nikolas (percentage of first or only given name: 22 %) [5]

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 Finland[6]
n.a.
1754 0 0
n.a.
1754
Sweden Sweden[7]
375 541 2 2 373 539
Denmark Denmark[8]
388
n.a.
0
n.a.
388
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
12 13
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Nikolas (m) Sources: [7][8][11][6]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Erik Henrik Lind: Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden (Supplementband (1931)
  2. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no