Boy · Greek
Nikolaos
Say it: nee-KOH-lah-os
Meaning
Greek nike 'victory' and laos 'people'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 1,816 babies given this name since 1962
- At its height in 2014, about 1 in 33,700 boys
- 48 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Greece800 BC to 146 BC
- 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
Other spellings: Nikos, Nikolas
| English | Nicholas |
|---|---|
| Hungarian | Miklós |
Famous bearers
- Saint Nicholas of Myra
- Nikos Kazantzakis, novelist
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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
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