Given name
Nicomedes
“one who thinks of victory”
Nicomedes is used as a given name. One Greek interpretation is “one who thinks of victory.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “one who thinks of victory.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1958. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nicomedes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 5 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 1958. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 365 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.
Nicomedes’s family of names
Nicomedes has a related form in Nicomedo. In English usage, Nicomedes has a conventional equivalent in the French form Nicomède. Nicomedes has a related form in Nikomedes.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nicomedes
- Nicomedes IV of Bithyniaking of Bithynia200 BC–73 BC
- Nicomedes III of BithyniaKing of Bithynia200 BC–160 BC
- Nicomedes II of Bithyniaking of Bithynia200 BC–160 BC
- Nicomedesancient Greek mathematician279 BC–209 BC
- Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y CorbelleSpanish politician and writer1811–1863
- Nicomedes Santa CruzPeruvian musician (1925–1992)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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