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Микола
“victory”·“people”
Микола (Mikola) is a masculine given name from Carpathian Rusyn, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Ukrainian and Pannonian Rusyn.
Russian and Ukrainian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Mikola.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Микола is built from elements meaning “victory” and “people”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Микола comes from Carpathian Rusyn, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Микола developed from Νικόλαος.
Микола’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Микола developed from the Ancient Greek form Νικόλαος. In Ukrainian usage, Микола has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Nicola. In Ukrainian usage, Микола has a conventional equivalent in the German form Nikolaus.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Микола has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Микола comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 39
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Nicholasequivalent
- Nicolasequivalent
- Nikolasequivalent
- Nikolaosequivalent
- NicolaItalian
- NikolausGerman
- Nilsequivalent
- Nielsequivalent
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- Nikolayequivalent
- Nikosequivalent
- Mykolaequivalent
- Nicolaasequivalent
- Nicolaeequivalent
- Nikolajequivalent
- Nicolinoequivalent
- Nicolauequivalent
- Nikolajusequivalent
- Νίκοςequivalent
- Nikolazequivalent
- Mikołajequivalent
- Nicolaesequivalent
- Miklavžequivalent
- Niccolòequivalent
- Nykolaequivalent
- Miklósequivalent
- Nickelequivalent
- Мікалайequivalent
- Міколаequivalent
- Nicolòequivalent
- Mikalaiequivalent
- МыколаRussian
- Николаdoublet · Russian, rsk
- ΜικόλαGreek
- Νικόλαοςroot · Greek, Ancient Greek
- NicolásSpanish
- MikulášCzech
- Nikolajsequivalent
- Mikolášequivalent
- Мико́лаhas masculine form
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Микола
- Mykola AzarovUkrainian politician (born 1947)
- Nikolay DobrolyubovRussian critic and philosopher1836–1861
- Nikolay DavydenkoRussian tennis playerborn 1981
- Nikolai PodgornySoviet politician (1903-1983)
- Mykola LysenkoUkrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist (1842–1912)
- Mykola LeontovychUkrainian composer, ethnomusicologist, and conductor (1877–1921)
- Nikolai AmosovUkrainian soviet and Ukrainian surgeon (1913–2002)
- Mykola KostomarovRussian-Ukrainian historian, founder of modern Ukrainian historiography, and a leader of the Ukrainian national revival (1817-1885)
- Mykola BazhanUkrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure (1904–1983)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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