Given name
Niklāvs
Niklāvs is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Latvian usage, Niklāvs developed from Νικόλαος.
Niklāvs’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Niklāvs has a short form in Klāvs. In Latvian usage, Niklāvs shares a linguistic root with the English form Nicholas. In Latvian usage, Niklāvs has a short form in NIKS.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Niklāvs
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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