Given name
Nikolajs
“victory”·“people”
Nikolajs is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nikolajs is a romanization of Никола. Никола is built from elements meaning “victory” and “people”.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Latvian usage, Nikolajs developed from Νικόλαος.
Nikolajs’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Nikolajs has a short form in NIKS. In Latvian usage, Nikolajs shares a linguistic root with the English form Nicholas. In Latvian usage, Nikolajs has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Nicola.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Nikolajs has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Nikolajs 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 24
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nikolajs
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