Given name & surname

Nicolls

“of the victorious people”

Nicolls is a variant of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

Nicolls is a variant of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”

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Where it comes from

Nicolls is a variant of Nicholas. An origin associated with Nicholas is Dutch.

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The story

Nicolls is a variant 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.

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Nicolls’s family of names

Nicolls has a related form in Nicholas.

Walk Nicolls’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

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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.

Similar names

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Saints

Niklos

“of the victorious people”

No U.S. birth series

97% boys · 3% girls

Saints

Nilos

“of the victorious people”

No U.S. birth series

88% boys · 12% girls

Saints

Niklaas

“of the victorious people”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Saints

Nikolas

“of the victorious people”

54UncommonEasing

>99% boys

Saints

Nickolas

“of the victorious people”

41UncommonCooling

>99% boys

Saints

Nicklin

“of the victorious people”

No U.S. birth series

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Saints

Nikkolay

“of the victorious people”

No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Nicolls’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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