Nicholas

A male given name: from Greek words meaning “victory” and “people.”.

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Nicholas or Nikolas or Nicolas or Nickolas is a male given name, derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος (Nikolaos), a compound of νίκη nikē 'victory' and λαός; laos 'people', that is, victor of the people. The name became popular through Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia, the inspiration for Santa Claus. The name Nikolaos (Νικόλαος) pre-existed the Bishop of Myra who became Saint Nicholas, by several centuries. The Athenian historian Thucydides mentions that in the second year of the Peloponnesian war (431 to 404 BC) between Sparta and Athens, the Spartans sent a delegation to the Persian king to ask for his help to fight the Athenians; Nikolaos was one of the delegates. The customary English version of spelling "Nicholas", using an "h", first came into use in the 12th century and has been firmly established since the Reformation, though "Nicolas" is occasionally used. In the United States, Nicholas – and its variations – was the 17th most popular male name given to babies in 2006. Roughly 0.7151% of the baby boys born that year, or 15,414, were given that name. It is decreasing in popularity, from a high in 1997, when 27,248 males in the United States were given the name Nicholas. That year was the most popular year for Nicholas since 1880, when U.S. records were kept for given names.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and its derivatives are especially popular in maritime regions, as St. Nicholas is considered the protector saint of seafarers.

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Masc. proper name, from French Nicolas, from Latin Nicholaus, Nicolaus, from Greek Nikholaos, literally "victory-people," from nike "victory" (see Nike) + laos "people" (see lay (adj.)). The saint (obit. 326 C.E.) was a bishop of Myra in Lycia, patron of scholars, especially schoolboys. A popular given name in England in Middle Ages, as was the fem. form Nicolaa, corresponding to French Nicole. Colloquial Old Nick "the devil" is attested from 1640s, evidently from the proper name, but for no certain reason.

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Victory of the people, derived from the greek words nike (victory) and laos (people).

Nicolas, Nikolaj, Nikola, Nichole, Nichola, Nicolaos, Nikita, Nikos, Nicholine, Nicolle, Nikolaos, Nika, Nico, Nikolas, Nicola, Nikolaas, Nikolla, Nicole

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Nicholas Buenote Hoult	1989	Actor, model, El Tony en Skins
2	Nicholas II of Russia	1868	Last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and titular King of Poland
3	Nicholas Spark	1965	American writer and novelist
4	Saint Nicholas	0270	4th-century Christian saint
5	Nicholas Winton	1909	British stockbroker who saved 669 Jewish children during 1938-39
6	Nicholas Lyndhurst	1961	Actor
7	Nicholas I of Russia	1796	Emperor of Russia
8	Nicholas Brendon	1971	Actor
9	Nicholas Braun	1988	American actor
10	Paul Nicholas	1945	British actor and singer
11	Thomas Ian Nicholas	1980	American actor, musician and director
12	Nicholas D'Agosto	1980	American actor
13	Nicholas Brody		Fictional character on the American television/drama thriller Homeland
14	Nicholas Turturro	1962	American actor
15	Nicholas Tse	1980	Hong Kong musician and actor
16	Nicholas Colasanto	1924	Actor
17	Nick Loeb	1975	Businessman
18	Nicholas Hammond	1950	British Rubik's Cube player and writer, field hockey official and commentator, internet businessman
19	Nicholas Parsons	1923	Actor; radio and TV presenter
20	Nicholas Smith	1934	English actor
21	Nicholas Hughes	1962	British-American fisheries biologist
22	Denise Nicholas	1944	Actress
23	Nicholas Pileggi	1933	American writer
24	Nicholas Soames	1948	British politician
25	Nicholas Cowell	1961	British businessman
26	Nicholas Guest	1951	Actor
27	Nicholas Walters	1986	Jamaican boxer
28	Nicholas Stoller	1976	British screenwriter
29	Nicholas Kristof	1959	Journalist, author, columnist
30	Nicholas Ray	1911	American film director
31	Nicholas Lea	1962	Canadian actor
32	Harold Nicholas	1921	American dancer
33	Nicholas Roerich	1874	Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, enlightener, philosopher
34	Nicholas Ofczarek	1971	Austrian actor
35	Nicholas A. Christakis	1962	American physician and sociologist
36	Nicholas Alkemade	1922	Royal Air Force airman
37	Charlie Nicholas	1961	Scottish footballer
38	Nicholas Farrell	1955	British actor
39	Nicholas Pinnock	1973	British actor
40	Nicholas Barbon	1640	English economist, physician and financial speculator
41	Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon	1930	British politician
42	Nicholas Campbell	1952	Canadian actor and filmmaker
43	Nicholas Clay	1946	British actor
44	Mark Nicholas	1957	English cricketer
45	Nicholas Saputra	1984	Actor
46	Nicholas van Hoogstraten	1945	British businessman
47	Nicholas Kazan	1945	American screenwriter
48	Nicholas Irving	1987	American autobiographer
49	Nicholas Meyer	1945	American screenwriter, producer, author, and director
50	Nicholas Newman	1975
51	Nicholas Porter Earp	1813	Union Army soldier
52	Nicholas Bishop	1973	Australian actor
53	Henry Nicholas	1959	American businessman
54	Nicholas Calabrese	1942	First made man ever to testify against the Chicago Outfit
55	Nicholas Carpenter		American film director
56	Nicholas Bond-Owen	1968	British actor
57	Nicholas Woodeson	1949	An English film, television and theatre actor
58	Nicholas Biwott	1940	Kenyan politician
59	Nicholas Ball	1946	British actor
60	Nicholas Romanov, Romanov's descent	1922	Italian historian and businessperson (1922-2014)
61	Nicholas Sand	1941	Psychedlic researcher
62	Nicholas Negroponte	1943	American computer scientist
63	Nicholas Pryor	1935	American actor
64	Nicholas of Cusa	1401	German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer
65	Nicholas Burns	1977	Actor
66	Nicholas Bell	1958	British actor
67	Nicholas Katzenbach	1922	American lawyer
68	Nicholas G. Carr	1959	American writer
69	Nicholas Hytner	1956	Film director
70	Nicholas McDonald	1996	Scottish singer
71	Nicholas Gleaves	1969	British actor
72	Nicholas Duncan-Williams	1957
73	Nicholas Hawksmoor	1661	British architect
74	Nicholas Barker	1973	British drummer
75	Nicholas Courtney	1929	English actor
76	Nicholas Santora	1942	American mobster
77	Nicholas Medforth-Mills	1985
78	Nicholas Llewelyn Davies	1903	Member of the Llewelyn Davies family
79	Nicholas Dirks	1950	American historian
80	Nicholas Gonzalez	1947	American physician
81	Nicholas Longworth	1869	American politician
82	Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury	1979	British peerage
83	Nicholas Murray Butler	1862	American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
84	Nicholas
85	Nicholas Gage	1939	Greek author and journalist
86	Nicholas Coleridge	1957	British media executive
87	Nicholas Witchell	1953	BBC journalist
88	Nicholas Ridley	1500	Bishop of London; Anglican Saint
89	Fayard Nicholas	1914	Choreographer, dancer, actor
90	Nicholas Britell	1980	American composer
91	Sir Nicholas Kemeys, 1st Baronet		English politician
92	Nicholas F. Brady	1930	American politician
93	Samuel Nicholas	1744	1st Commandant of the Marine Corps
94	Nicholas D. Wolfwood		Character in Trigun
95	Nicholas Jones	1946	English actor
96	Nicholas Crane	1954	English geographer, explorer, writer and broadcaster
97	Nicholas Hilliard	1547	British artist
98	Nicholas Briggs	1961	British actor
99	Nicholas Green	1987	American murdered child
100	Nicholas Lloyd	1942	British newspaper editor and broadcaster
101	Nicholas Culpeper	1616	English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer
102	Nicholas Corozzo	1940	American mobster
103	Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford	1946	British economist and academic
104	Nicholas Confessore		American journalist
105	Nicholas Teo	1981	Malaysian actor
106	Nicholas Serota	1946	British curator
107	Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale	1923	English novelist
108	Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers	1938	British judge
109	Nicholas Kaldor	1908	British/Hungarian economist
110	Nicholas Monsarrat	1910	British writer
111	Nicholas Sarwark	1979	American politician
112	Nicholas Wolterstorff	1932	American philosopher
113	Grant Nicholas	1967	British singer
114	Nicholas Haslam	1939	English interior designer and socialite
115	Nicholas Scibetta		American mobility
116	Nicholas Grimshaw	1939	English architect
117	Nicholas Wade	1942	British writer
118	Nicholas Jarecki	1979	American screenwriter
119	Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen	1906	Mathematician, Statistician and Economist
120	Nicholas Platt	1936	American diplomat
121	Nicholas Megalis	1989	American musician and comedian
122	Nick St. Nicholas	1943	German musician
123	Nicholas Hooper	1952	British composer
124	Nicholas of Tolentino	1245	Italian saint and mystic
125	Nicholas Hope	1958	Australian actor
126	Nicholas Pettas	1973	Danish actor and martial artist
127	Nicholas Logsdail		British art dealer
128	Nicholas of Flüe	1417	Hermit, ascetic, patron saint of Switzerland
129	Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale	1929	British politician
130	Nicholas Thorburn	1981	Canadian musician
131	Nicholas Latifi	1995	Canadian racing driver
132	Nicholas Evans	1950	British producer and writer
133	Nicholas Wheeler	1965	English businessman
134	Nicholas Metropolis	1915	Greek American physicist
135	Nicholas of Japan	1836	Russian Orthodox priest
136	Nicholas Bullen	1968	British musician
137	Nicholas Rescher	1928	American philosopher
138	Nicholas Sadler	1975	American actor
139	Nicholas Perricone	1948	American dermatologist
140	Nicholas Rogers	1969	Australian actor
141	Nicholas Boshier		Australian actor
142	Nicholas Mevoli	1981	American free diver
143	Nicholas John Spykman	1893	Dutch-American geopolitician
144	Nicholas Macpherson	1959	British civil servant
145	Nicholas Nixon	1947	American photographer
146	Nicholas Worth	1937	American actor
147	Nicholas David	1981	American musician
148	Nicholas Gruner	1942	Canadian priest
149	Nicholas Schorsch	1961	American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist
150	Nicholas Vreeland	1955	Swiss photographer
151	Nicholas Gilman	1755	American politician
152	Nicholas J. Pritzker	1945	American businessman
153	Nicholas Pegg		British actor
154	Nicholas Le Prevost	1947	British actor
155	Nicholas Paget-Brown	1957	English politician
156	Ben Nicholas	1987	Australian actor
157	Nicholas Owen	1550	Jesuit lay brother and martyr
158	Nicholas Art	1999	American actor
159	Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay	1846	Russian explorer and scientist
160	Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke	1953	British historian and professor
161	Nicholas Patrick	1964	American astronaut
162	Nicholas Cochrane	1973	British actor
163	Nicholas Roosevelt	1658	Dutch-American politician
164	Nicholas Civella	1912	American mobster
165	Nicholas Throckmorton	1515	English diplomat
166	Nicholas Payton	1973	American musician
167	Nicholas Humphrey	1943	British psychologist
168	Nicholas Caldwell	1944
169	Nicholas Fairbairn	1933	British politician
170	Nicholas Monroe	1982	US tennis player
171	Nicholas Reeves	1956	British egyptologist
172	Nicholas Rowe	1674	English poet, dramatist
173	Nicholas Rush
174	Nicholas Herkimer	1728	American general
175	Frans Nicholas	1984
176	Drew Nicholas	1981	American basketball player
177	Nicholas Carew	1496	English politician
178	Nicholas Schenck	1881	American film studio executive
179	Nicholas Day		British actor
180	Nicholas Kollerstrom	1946	British astrologer
181	Nicholas Bianco	1932	American mobster
182	Nicholas Trist	1800	American diplomat
183	Nicholas Tombazis	1968	Greek racing car designer
184	Nicholas Delbanco	1942	American writer
185	Nicholas Brown	1980	Australian actor and singer
186	Nicholas Lemann	1954	American academic
187	Nicholas Frankau	1954	English actor
188	Nicholas Georgiade	1933	American actor
189	Louise Nicholas		New Zealand victim of rape
190	Nicholas Young	1949	British actor
191	Nicholas S. Zeppos	1954	American academic administrator
192	Nicholas Shakespeare	1957	Novelist and journalist
193	Nicholas J. Corea	1943	Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
194	Nicholas Merrill	1972	Free speech and privacy advocate
195	Nicholas Bacon	1510	English politician
196	Nicholas Ferrar	1592	English scholar and courtier
197	Nicholas Morello	1890	American mobster
198	Nicholas Kadi	1952	Iraqi actor
199	Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman	1802	Anglo-Irish priest, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
200	Nicholas Bailey	1971	British actor