Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Mykola isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mykola through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,571 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,571 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,739 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mykola’s family of names
In English usage, Mykola has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Μικόλα.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 37
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Nicholasequivalent
- Nicolasequivalent
- Nikolasequivalent
- Nikolaosequivalent
- Nikolausequivalent
- Nilsequivalent
- Nielsequivalent
- Nikolayequivalent
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- Nikosequivalent
- Nicolaasequivalent
- Nikolajequivalent
- Nicolinoequivalent
- Nicolauequivalent
- Nicolaeequivalent
- Νίκοςequivalent
- Nikolazequivalent
- Nicolaesequivalent
- Miklavžequivalent
- Niccolòequivalent
- Николаequivalent
- Nykolaequivalent
- Miklósequivalent
- Nickelequivalent
- Мікалайequivalent
- Николайequivalent
- Міколаequivalent
- Nicolòequivalent
- Mikalaiequivalent
- ΜικόλαGreek
- Nikolajsequivalent
- Mikolášequivalent
- Миколаequivalent
- Mikolaequivalent
- Mikołajequivalent
- Nicolásequivalent
- Nikolajusequivalent
- Mikulášequivalent
People named Mykola
- Mykola AzarovUkrainian politician (born 1947)
- Nikolay DobrolyubovRussian critic and philosopher1836–1861
- Nikolay DavydenkoRussian tennis playerborn 1981
- Nikolai PodgornySoviet politician (1903-1983)
- Mykola LysenkoUkrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist (1842–1912)
- Mykola LeontovychUkrainian composer, ethnomusicologist, and conductor (1877–1921)
- Nikolai AmosovUkrainian soviet and Ukrainian surgeon (1913–2002)
- Mykola KostomarovRussian-Ukrainian historian, founder of modern Ukrainian historiography, and a leader of the Ukrainian national revival (1817-1885)
- Mykola BazhanUkrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure (1904–1983)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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