Nicolas

At the 2020 census, 9,318 Americans bore the surname Nicolas — 3,707th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 32,100.

By the numbers

People: 9,318
Rank: 3,707th
How common: 1 in 32,100
Per 100,000: 3.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Nicolas described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 33.9%
Black, not Hispanic 29.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 18.9%
White, not Hispanic 14.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Nicolas

Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras (1755–1829)French politician
Adolfo Nicolás (1936–2020)Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Jean Nicolas (1913–1978)French footballer
Sandro Nicolas (born 1996)German singer
Carlos Coloma Nicolás (born 1981)Spanish cyclist
Astier Nicolas (born 1989)French eventing rider
Paul Nicolas (1899–1959)French association football player and manager
Jean-Pierre Nicolas (born 1945)rally driver, runner-up in the 1978 FIA Cup for Rally Drivers

People named Nicolas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Nicolas

Also a first name

Nicolas has been given to 101,764 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 2003. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.