Given name & surname
Anicet
“invincible”
Anicet is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in French.
Original LatinAnicetus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Anicet goes back to Latin Anicetus, meaning “invincible.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Anicet’s family of names
In Polish usage, Anicet has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Aniceto. In French usage, Anicet has a conventional equivalent in the Latin form Anicetus. In French usage, Anicet has a conventional equivalent in the Basque form ANIKETA.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Anicet has relatives in 12 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Anicet comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- AnicetusLatin, English
- AnicetoItalian, Galician
- Aniketequivalent
- АникетRussian
- AniketaBasque
- AniketoszHungarian
- МикитаUkrainian
- НикитаRussian
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People named Anicet
- Anicet AbelMalagasy footballerborn 1990
- Auguste Anicet-BourgeoisFrench dramatist1806–1871
- AJ DybantsaAmerican basketball player (born 2007)
- Anicet AdjamossiBeninese footballerborn 1984
- Anicet LavodramaCentral African basketball playerborn 1963
- Anicet-Georges DologuéléCentral African politicianborn 1957
- Anicet KoplińskiPolish Roman Catholic Capuchin friar, priest, and martyr1875–1941
- Anicet Le PorsFrench politicianborn 1931
- Anicet EkaneCameroonian politician and activist (1951–2025)
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