Niklas (name)

Niklas is a masculine first name and family name.

Origin and Meaning

The name is a Swedish and Finnish form of Nicholas.

Deposits in Germany

In the first half of the 20th century, the name Niklas was rare in Germany. From the late 60s, its popularity has increased steadily. From the mid- 90s to the early years of the new millennium, the name was one of the ten most frequently awarded first names for boys, 2001, reaching number one in the frequency statistic. Since then, its popularity has waned slightly.

Bearers of the name

First name

  • Niklas Andersen ( * 1988), German football player
  • Niklas Andersson (born 1971 ), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Niklas Askmyr (* 1990), Swedish snowboarder
  • Niklas Axelsson (born 1972 ), Swedish cyclist
  • Niklas Bäckström (born 1978 ), Finnish ice hockey player
  • Niklas Birr ( * 1974 ), German rally driver
  • Niklas Dürer (1460-1539), German goldsmith
  • Niklas Edin ( born 1985 ), Swedish curler
  • Niklas Eklund (born 1969 ), Swedish trumpeter
  • Niklas Eriksson ( b. 1969 ), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Niklas Frank (* 1939), German journalist and writer for the German weekly magazine Stern
  • Niklas Gudmundsson (born 1972 ), Swedish football player
  • Niklas Gustavsson (* 1989), Swedish mountain bike and road bicycle racer
  • Niklas Hagman ( b. 1979 ), Finnish ice hockey player
  • Niklas Hartmann ( * 1989), German football player
  • Niklas Hede (* 1969), German - Finnish professional ice hockey player
  • Niklas Henning ( b. 1964 ), Swedish ski racer
  • Niklas Heyser (* 1989), German biathlete
  • Niklas Hjalmarsson (* 1987), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Niklas Hoheneder (* 1986), Austrian football player
  • Niklas Holzberg (* 1946), German classical scholar
  • Niklas Hult (* 1990), Swedish football player
  • Niklas Landin Jacobsen ( * 1988), Danish handball goalkeeper
  • Niklas Kohrt (* 1980), German actor
  • Niklas Koppernigk sen. (1454-1483), father of Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Niklas Kreutzmann (* 1982 ), Greenlandic - Danish football player
  • Niklas Kronwall ( born 1981 ), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), German sociologist
  • Niklas Lütcke (* 1974), German basketball player
  • Niklas Maak (* 1972), German journalist and architecture critic
  • Niklas Mahrdt (* 1967), German media scholar, Professor of Media Economics
  • Niklas Mayr Hauser ( * 1993), Austrian hockey player
  • Niklas Meinert (* 1981), German hockey player
  • Niklas Moisander ( born 1985 ), Finnish football player
  • Niklas Müller (1809-1875), German poet and publisher, Baden MP (1848 )
  • Niklas Nordgren ( b. 1979 ), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Niklas Olsson ( born 1968 ), Swedish handball player
  • Niklas Persson ( born 1979 ), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Niklas Rainer ( b. 1983 ), Swedish ski racer
  • Niklas soot (* 1990), German handball player
  • Niklas Graf Salm (1459-1530), military leader and defender of Vienna in 1529
  • Niklas Sandberg (born 1978 ), Swedish football player
  • Niklas Skoog ( born 1974 ), Swedish football player
  • Niklas Stegmann (* 1987), German football player
  • Niklas Stiller ( born 1947 ), German physician and writer
  • Niklas Sundblad (born 1973 ), Swedish ice hockey player and coach
  • Niklas Sundin ( born 1974 ), Swedish guitarist, designers and copywriters
  • Niklas Sundström ( born 1975 ), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Niklas Tarvajärvi ( b. 1983 ), Finnish football player
  • Niklas Treutle (* 1991), German ice hockey goaltender
  • Niklas Willén ( b. 1961 ), Swedish conductor
  • Niklas von Wyle (1410-1478), early humanist writer and translator
  • Niklas Zennström (born 1966 ), Swedish IT entrepreneur, developer of KaZaA and Skype

Between Name

  • January Niklas Berg ( * 1988), German film actor
  • Herman Niklas Grim (1641-1711), physician, naturalist, East India traveler, author of important works on plants and remedies
  • Peter Niklas Wilson (1957-2003), German jazz bassist, musicologist and journalist

Double Name

  • Jan- Niklas Pietsch (* 1991), German ice hockey player
  • Wolf Niklas Schykowski (* 1993), German actor
  • Joseph Niklas zu Windisch -Graetz (1744-1802), Austrian Archduchess Marie Antoinette service Treasurer of the

Family name

  • Christine Niklas (* 1954), German author, journalist and presenter
  • Hans Niklas (1884-1944), German agronomist
  • January Niklas (* 1947), German actor
  • Patrick Niklas (* 1987), Austrian football player
  • Niklas Rudolf (1906-1972), Austrian politician ( SPÖ)
  • Wilhelm Niklas (1887-1957), German politician ( CSU)
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