Niklas
Niklas is a male first name and family name .
Origin and meaning
The name is a Scandinavian and Finnish form of Nicholas .
Occurrence in Germany
In the first half of the 20th century the name Niklas was rare in Germany. Its popularity increased steadily from the late 1960s onwards. From the mid-1990s until the first few years of the new millennium, the name was one of the ten most frequently given first names for boys, and in 2001 it was even number one in the frequency statistics. Since then, its popularity has decreased slightly.
Name bearer
First name
- Niklas Andersen (soccer player) (* 1988), German soccer player
- Niklas Andersen (ice hockey player) (* 1997), Danish ice hockey player
- Niklas Andersson (ice hockey player, 1971) (* 1971), Swedish ice hockey player and scout
- Niklas Andersson (ice hockey player, 1986) (* 1986), Swedish ice hockey player
- Niklas Askmyr (* 1990), Swedish snowboarder
- Niklas Åstedt (* 1990), Swedish poker player
- Niklas Axelsson (* 1972), Swedish racing cyclist
- Niklas Bäckström (* 1978), Finnish ice hockey player
- Niklas Bergendorff (* 1964), Swedish pool player
- Niklas Birr (* 1974), German rally driver
- Niklas Brobst von Effelt (after 1450-around 1506), German town clerk
- Niklas Dürer (1460–1539), German goldsmith
- Niklas Edin (* 1985), Swedish curler
- Niklas Ehrenholz (* 1995), German poker player
- Niklas Eklund (* 1969), Swedish trumpeter
- Niklas Eriksson (* 1969), Swedish ice hockey player
- Niklas Frank (* 1939), German journalist and author for the German weekly magazine Stern
- Niklas Gudmundsson (* 1972), Swedish football player
- Niklas Gustavsson (* 1989), Swedish mountain bike and road cyclist
- Niklas Hagman (* 1979), Finnish ice hockey player
- Niklas Hartmann (* 1989), German soccer player
- Niklas Hede (* 1969), German-Finnish ice hockey player
- Niklas Heinecker (* 1984), German poker player
- Niklas Henning (* 1964), Swedish ski racer
- Niklas Heyser (* 1989), German biathlete
- Niklas Hjalmarsson (* 1987), Swedish ice hockey player
- Niklas Hoheneder (* 1986), Austrian soccer player
- Niklas Holzberg (* 1946), German classical philologist
- Niklas Hult (* 1990), Swedish football player
- Niklas Landin Jacobsen (* 1988), Danish handball goalkeeper
- Niklas Kaul (* 1998), German decathlete
- Niklas Kohrt (* 1980), German actor
- Niklas Koppernigk Sr. (1454–1483), father of Nicolaus Copernicus
- Niklas Kreutzmann (* 1982), Greenland-Danish football player
- Niklas Kronwall (* 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 scientist, professor of media economics
- Niklas Mayrhauser (* 1993), Austrian ice hockey player
- Niklas Meinert (* 1981), German hockey player
- Niklas Moisander (* 1985), Finnish soccer player
- Niklas Müller (1809–1875), German poet and publisher, Member of Parliament from Baden (1848)
- Niklas Nordgren (ice hockey player, 1979) (* 1979), Swedish ice hockey player
- Niklas Nordgren (ice hockey player, 2000) (* 2000), Finnish ice hockey player
- Niklas Olsson (* 1968), Swedish handball player
- Niklas P. , victim of a killing offense widely received in the media in Bad Godesberg
- Niklas Persson (* 1979), Swedish ice hockey player
- Niklas Rainer (* 1983), Swedish ski racer
- Niklas Ruß (* 1990), German handball player
- Niklas Graf Salm (1459–1530), general and defender of Vienna 1529
- Niklas Sandberg (* 1978), Swedish football player
- Niklas Skoog (* 1974), Swedish football player
- Niklas Stark (* 1995), German soccer player
- Niklas Stegmann (* 1987), German soccer player
- Niklas Stiller (* 1947), German physician and writer
- Niklas Süle (* 1995), German soccer player
- Niklas Sundblad (* 1973), Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- Niklas Sundin (* 1974), Swedish guitarist, designer and lyricist
- Niklas Sundström (* 1975), Swedish ice hockey player
- Niklas Tarvajärvi (* 1983), Finnish football player
- Niklas Treutle (* 1991), German ice hockey goalkeeper
- Niklas Willén (* 1961), Swedish conductor
- Niklas von Wyle (1410–1478), early humanist writer and translator
- Niklas Zennström (* 1966), Swedish IT entrepreneur, developer of KaZaA and Skype
Intermediate name
- Jan Niklas Berg (* 1988), German film actor
- Herman Niklas Grim (1641–1711), doctor, naturalist, traveler to India, author of important works on plants and medicinal products
- 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 treasurer of Archduchess Marie Antoinette
family name
- Christine Niklas (* 1954), German author, journalist and presenter
- Hans Niklas (1884–1944), German agricultural scientist
- Hans Niklas (basketball player) , German basketball player
- Jan Niklas (* 1947), German actor
- Joachim Niklas (* 1941), German politician (SPD), member of the Berlin House of Representatives
- Karl J. Niklas (* 1948), American botanist
- Max Niklas (1905–1935), German local politician and opponent of National Socialism
- Patrick Niklas (* 1987), Austrian soccer player
- Patrik Niklas-Salminen (* 1997), Finnish tennis player
- Rudolf Niklas (1906–1972), Austrian politician (SPÖ)
- Wilhelm Niklas (1887–1957), German politician (CSU)