Given name
Nikulás
“victory”·“people”
Nikulás is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nikulás is built from elements meaning “victory” and “people”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Icelandic usage, Nikulás developed from Νικόλαος.
Nikulás’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Nikulás developed from the Ancient Greek form Νικόλαος. In Icelandic usage, Nikulás has a conventional equivalent in the English form Nicholas. In Icelandic usage, Nikulás has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Nicola.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Nikulás has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Nikulás comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nikulás
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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