Nikola

given name · Czech · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Nikola is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In the Czechia it is the 69th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Nicole.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 141◐
  • PLPoland1 in 484
  • SKSlovakia1 in 986

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈265K ●

across 19 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
124 ●

10K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 131 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

NikolaLatin · Czech●348K records
НиколаCyrillic · Tajik●2 records
니콜라Hangul · Korean●0 records
ՆիկոլաArmenian · Armenian●0 records

Locally spelled Nicola in IT Italy.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

a female given name, equivalent to English Nicole

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nikola is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#14979,041△3.4K rec.1 in 48479KNikola100
CZ Czechia#6975,992△3.4K rec.1 in 14176KNikola124
BG Bulgaria—37,057—1 in 18837K——
HR Croatia—32,304—1 in 13132K——
MK North Macedonia—14,665△19 rec.1 in 14515KNikola7
US United States—8,682△883 rec.1 in 38K8.7KNikola62
BR Brazil—4,609—1 in 46K4.6K——
LV Latvia—2,685△6 rec.1 in 7012.7K—8
SK Slovakia#1542,478385 rec.——Nikola86
SE Sweden—2,385△32 rec.1 in 4.3K2.4KNikola9
SI Slovenia—2,231△6 rec.1 in 9422.3K—3
FR France—1,540—1 in 44K1.5K——

Roughly 79K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 484). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Czech348K24%
  • Polish343K24%
  • Bulgarian285K20%
  • Croatian278K19%
  • English70K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech348,39524%
Polish343,12024%
Bulgarian284,86820%
Croatian277,58219%
English70,3165%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nikola is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name113K records spelled Nikola23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, Germany, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Nikolae, Nikolä, Níkola, Nikóla, Nikôlâ

  • French given name30K records spelled Nikola8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Serbia, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Níkola, Nikolà, Nìkola, Nikolā

  • a separate given name4.0K records spelled Nikola2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Serbia, United Kingdom, North Macedonia

    Also written Nikolā

  • Russian given name3.6K records spelled Nikola14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Italy

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Nicola, Нікола, Nicolà, Ñikola, Nicolá

  • Turkish given name3.3K records spelled Nikola4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

    Also written Никола

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Nikola is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Czech, a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, Nikola (Nicola) är en romansk form av → Nikolaus. Namnet ges även till flickor som en variant av → Nicole. En känd namnbärare är uppfinnaren Nikola Tesla (1856–1943).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Serbo-Croatian, m., f. lično ime

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • In Russian, de niké, victoire et 105, peuple.

    as a nameRussian Names

  • In Russian, dim of Nikolai.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02040608019001950200068 · 1997

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Nikola in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1872–2024
Yearrecords
18721
18801
18822
18832
18851
18871
18881
18891
18921
18942
18961
19003
19012
19031
19041
19055
19063
19075
19081
19093
19105
19114
19128
19134
19143
19151
19162
19172
19182
19196
19204
19212
19223
19233
19243
19253
19265
19276
19288
19296
19305
19317
19329
19336
19349
193513
19367
193715
19387
193911
19408
19418
19426
194311
194410
19454
194614
194713
194813
194914
19507
195115
195215
19539
195410
19557
19564
19575
19586
19597
19605
19614
19625
196310
19648
19656
19663
19679
19681
19699
19705
197111
19725
19734
19746
19757
19767
197712
19789
197913
198012
19817
198217
198325
198429
198523
198626
198736
198833
198928
199047
199159
199247
199352
199452
199552
199664
199768
199862
199951
200054
200142
200241
200345
200437
200536
200635
200732
200824
200924
201028
201121
201224
201320
201413
201515
201611
201711
201810
20197
202010
20215
20227
20239
20244

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 135 years between 1872–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Nikola Tesla, b. 1856Nikola Špirić, b. 1956Nikola Gruevski, b. 1970Nikola Žigić, b. 1980Nikola Peković, b. 1986Nikola Kalinić, b. 1988Nikola Kalinić, b. 1991Nikola Mirotić, b. 1991Nikola Jokić, b. 1995Ewa Swoboda, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 83 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Nikola
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—79K#73
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202679K#73
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—76K#66
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—38K#75
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202132K#14
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202127K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.4K#3,813
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—2.7K#205
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—2.7K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.4K#953
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—2.3K#224
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20252.2K#108

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,048 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nikola?
We estimate roughly 265 thousand people bear Nikola (counting its spellings and scripts) across 19 countries in our records.
In which country does Nikola have the most bearers?
We estimate about 79 thousand people bear Nikola in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nikola.
Where is Nikola most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nikola is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 131 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is Nikola compared with other names?
In Poland, Nikola is the 149th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
Is Nikola a male or female name?
Nikola is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Nikola mean?
Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Nicole
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nikola” — the 149th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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