Given name
Mikuláš
Mikuláš is a masculine given name. It is used in Czech and Slovak.
Original LatinNicolaus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mikuláš comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ukrainian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Nicolaus, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος, from Hungarian Miklós, from Lithuanian Mikalojus, from Polish Mikołaj, from Ukrainian Микола.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mikuláš’s family of names
In Czech usage, Mikuláš has an affectionate form in Landa. In Slovak usage, Mikuláš has a conventional equivalent in the English form Nicholas. In Czech usage, Mikuláš has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Nicolas.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mikuláš has relatives in 28 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Mikuláš comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 40
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- NicolausLatin
- NicholasEnglish
- NicolasPortuguese, French
- Nikolasequivalent
- KlausGerman
- Nikolaosequivalent
- NicolaItalian
- NikolausGerman
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- NilsSwedish, Norwegian
- NielsDanish
- Nikolayequivalent
- Nikosequivalent
- Mykolaequivalent
- NicolaasDutch
- NicolauPortuguese, Catalan
- NikolajSlovene
- NicolaeRomanian
- NiiloFinnish
- Nikolajusequivalent
- Νίκοςequivalent
- Nikolazequivalent
- Miklavžequivalent
- Nickelequivalent
- ΝικόλαοςGreek
- NícolasPortuguese
- NicolásSpanish
- Mikolaequivalent
- Mikławšequivalent
- МиколаUkrainian
- НиколайRussian
- MikołajPolish
- KlaasDutch
- MiklósHungarian
- NikolajsLatvian
- MikalojusLithuanian
- NiccolòItalian
- ნიკოლოზGeorgian
- НиколаBulgarian
- ՆիկողայոսArmenian
- KollëAlbanian
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Mikuláš
- Mikuláš Dzurindaformer prime minister of Slovakiaborn 1955
- Mikuláš GalandaSlovak graphic and painter (1895-1938)
- Mikuláš AthanasovCzechoslovak wrestler (1930-2005)
- Mikuláš Schneider-TrnavskýSlovak music educator and composer (1881-1958)
- Nicholas II of OpavaDuke of Opava and Duke of Ratibor, Treasurer of the Kingdom of Bohemia and Governor of Kladsko1288–1365
- Nicholas I of TroppauDuke of Opava (c.1255–1318)
- Nicholas KontCroatian-Hungarian nobile (?–1367)1300–1367
- Mikuláš KonopkaSlovak shot putterborn 1979
- Mikuláš BekCzech poitician, teacher and musicologistborn 1964
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