Nikolina

given name · Croatian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nikolina is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Bulgarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Female counterpart of Nìkola.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 272◐
  • RSSerbia1 in 952
  • SISlovenia1 in 2.5K

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

≈26K ●

across 14 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
123 ●

48K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 272 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

NikolinaLatin · Croatian●99K records
НиколинаCyrillic · Russian●12K records
ΝικολίναGreek · Greek●11 records
นิโคลินาThai · Thai●3 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nicolina in IT Italy, PL Poland, FI Finland, Николина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Ніколіна in UA Ukraine.

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●

Female counterpart of Nìkola.

Sources 3

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Nikolina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#6915,54827K rec.1 in 27216KNikolina123
RU Russia—11,8404.4K rec.—#1,607Николина106
BG Bulgaria#2755,1103.7K rec.——Nikolina74
RS Serbia#1373,3711.3K rec.—listedNikolina42
MK North Macedonia—2,396△17 rec.1 in 8872.4KNikolina10
UA Ukraine—2,0613K rec.——Ніколіна22
AT Austria#7622,010269 rec.—510Nikolina43
NL Netherlands—1,706△68 rec.1 in 10K1.7KNikolina8
US United States—1,4412.8K rec.1 in 231K1.4KNikolina102
DE Germany—1,4411.3K rec.—1Nikolina91
SE Sweden—1,297653 rec.1 in 7.9K1.3KNikolina27
IT Italy—1,2441.3K rec.—5Nicolina17

Roughly 16K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 272). 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●

  • Croatian99K79%
  • Bulgarian5.7K5%
  • German3.5K3%
  • English3.1K3%
  • Polish2.7K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian99,31579%
Bulgarian5,6795%
German3,5503%
English3,1493%
Polish2,6672%

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◐

Nikolina is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name2.8K records spelled Nikolina2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Serbia, United States

    Also written Nikolino

  • Czech given name365 records spelled Nikolina2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Serbia

    Also written Nikolína

  • Italian given name282 records spelled Nikolina2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Italy, United States

    Also written Nikolína

29 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●

Nikolina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Николина (Nikolina)

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

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●

02040601940196019802000202042 · 2013

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Nikolina in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1930–2025
Yearrecords
19301
19331
19481
19711
19731
19782
19801
19821
19832
19843
19864
19871
19881
19892
19903
19913
19922
19935
19945
19954
19967
19977
199814
199912
200013
200110
200210
200321
200411
200513
200621
200716
200822
200917
201023
201124
201231
201342
201416
201519
201614
20178
20189
20197
202010
20217
20227
20236
20248
20252

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 50 years between 1930–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Nikolina Shtereva, b. 1955Nikolina Grabovac, b. 1968Nikolina Brnjac, b. 1978Nikolina Andova, b. 1978Nikolina Angelkova, b. 1979Nikolina Ilijanić, b. 1983Nikolina Horvat, b. 1986Nina Dobrev, b. 1989Nikolina Moldovan, b. 1990Nikolina Knežević, b. 2000

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 54 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Nikolina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202116K#59
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202115K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.1K#1,610
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—865#432
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025826#230
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024792#233
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023760#236
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020747#15,409
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022723#242
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2021690#243
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2020648#245
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019618#251

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 · 291 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nikolina?
We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Nikolina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Nikolina have the most bearers?
We estimate about 16 thousand people bear Nikolina in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nikolina.
Where is Nikolina most common?
Nikolina is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 272 people carrying it.
How common is Nikolina compared with other names?
In Croatia, Nikolina is the 69th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
Is Nikolina a male or female name?
Nikolina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Nikolina mean?
Recorded meaning: Female counterpart of Nìkola.
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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, “Nikolina” — the 69th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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