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Никифор
“victory”·“-bearing”
Никифор (Nykýfor) is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Russian and Ukrainian.
Bulgarian and Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Nicephorus.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Никифор is built from elements meaning “victory” and “-bearing”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Никифор comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Никифор developed from Νικήφορος.
Никифор’s family of names
In Russian usage, Никифор has a diminutive in Никифорка. In Ukrainian usage, Никифор developed from the Ancient Greek form Νικήφορος. In Russian usage, Никифор has a conventional equivalent in the English form Nicephorus.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Никифор has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Никифор comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 4
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 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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