Given name & surname
Mikolas
“of the victorious people”
Mikolas is a form of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Basque use, Mikolas carries the interpretation “of the victorious people.” Mikolas is a form of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Basque.
How it developed
Mikolas is used as a form of Nicholas.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Mikolas is a form of Nicholas. The history of Nicholas gives this family its wider story. Nicholas’s Christian associations include Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop of Myra in Lycia, about whom virtually nothing factual is known.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Mikolas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 18
- 18 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 120 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mikolas’s family of names
Mikolas is a form of Nicholas. Mikolas has a related form in Mikolaj. In Lithuanian usage, Mikolas has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Michał.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Mikolajvariant
- Milekvariant
- Mikolaivariant
- Mickolusvariant
- Mikolusvariant
- Micklasvariant
- Mickolausvariant
- Mickolasvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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