Nicholas
236
Babies in 2024
-43%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 1.39k
-4%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Nicholas
Nicholas peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (1,385 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 236 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Nicholas reached its peak in 1996, when 1,385 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #52 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 236 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 15,983 boys have been officially registered with the name Nicholas in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 3,765 boys were registered with the name, starting from 413 in 2014 and ending at 236 in 2024.