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Никола
“victory”·“people”
Никола (Nikola) is a masculine given name from Serbo-Croatian, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Bulgarian, Macedonian, Old Church Slavonic, Pannonian Rusyn, and 1 other language.
Bulgarian and Macedonian and Russian and Serbian and Serbo-Croatian and cu and rsk and unknownWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Nicholas.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Никола is built from elements meaning “victory” and “people”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Никола comes from Serbo-Croatian, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Serbo-Croatian Никола//Nikola, from Old Church Slavonic Никола, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος, built from Ancient Greek νῑ́κη (“victory”) + λᾱός (“people”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Никола’s family of names
In Bulgarian usage, Никола has a diminutive in Ко́льо. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Никола shares an earlier linguistic root with Микола. In Bulgarian usage, Никола has a conventional equivalent in the English form Nicholas.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Никола has relatives in 14 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Никола comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 6
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- NicholasEnglish
- NicolaItalian
- NikolausGerman
- Nikolayequivalent
- Mykolaequivalent
- Nykolaequivalent
- Миколаdoublet · rsk, Ukrainian
- Νικόλαοςsource · Greek, Ancient Greek
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See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Никола
- Nikola ZhekovBulgarian general, Minister of War, and commander-in-chief during World War I (1865–1949)
- Nikola KovachevBulgarian footballer (1934-2009)
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