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Mikołaj
Say it: mee-KOH-wigh
Meaning
Polish form of Nicholas, from Greek nike 'victory' and laos 'people'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
An old Polish name revived strongly among babies since the 2000s.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 206 babies given this name since 1994
- At its height in 2010, about 1 in 119,800 boys
- 8 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| Czech | Mikuláš |
|---|---|
| Russian | Nikolai |
Famous bearers
- Mikołaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus)
- Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.