Given name & surname · also Latin
Nicolás
“victory”·“people”
Nicolás is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Spanish.
Original LatinNicolaus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nicolás is built from elements meaning “victory” and “people”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Nicolás comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Spanish usage, Nicolás developed from Νικόλαος.
Nicolás’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Nicolás has a diminutive in Nico. In Spanish usage, Nicolás shares a linguistic root with the Sicilian form Nicola. In Spanish usage, Nicolás has a conventional equivalent in the English form Nicholas.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Nicolás has relatives in 35 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Nicolás comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
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 46
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- NicolausLatin
- NicholasEnglish
- Nicolasborrowing · Portuguese, ceb
- ColeEnglish
- NikoFinnish
- Nikolasequivalent
- NickEnglish
- NikolaSerbo-Croatian, Maltese
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- KlausGerman
- Nikolaosequivalent
- Nicolacognate · Italian, Sicilian
- NikolausGerman
- NilsSwedish, Norwegian Bokmål
- NielsDanish
- Nikolayequivalent
- Nikosequivalent
- Mykolaequivalent
- NicolaasDutch
- NicolauPortuguese, Catalan
- NiiloFinnish
- NikolajSlovene
- NicolaeRomanian
- Νίκοςequivalent
- Nikolazequivalent
- Nikólaosequivalent
- Nicolaesequivalent
- Nickelequivalent
- Nicolòequivalent
- Νικόλαοςroot · Greek, Ancient Greek
- NícolasPortuguese
- MikulášCzech, Slovak
- ნიკოლოზGeorgian
- 니콜라스Korean
- НиколаBulgarian, Serbo-Croatian
- ՆիկողոսArmenian
- KolleAlbanian
- NikollaAlbanian
- МиколаUkrainian
- НиколайRussian
- MikołajPolish
- KlaasDutch
- MikalojusLithuanian
- NikolajsLatvian
- NiccolòItalian
- NioclásIrish
- MiklósHungarian
People named Nicolás
- Nicolás MaduroVenezuelan politicianborn 1962
- Nicolás OtamendiArgentine association football playerborn 1988
- Nicolás BurdissoArgentine footballerborn 1981
- Nicolás TagliaficoArgentine association football playerborn 1992
- Nico PazArgentine-Spanish footballer (born 2004)
- Nicolás LodeiroUruguayan association football playerborn 1989
- Nico GonzálezSpanish association football player (born 2002)
- Nicolás MassúChilean tennis player and coachborn 1979
- Nicolás AlmagroSpanish tennis player (born 1985)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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