Nikola

This article is about the given name. For the truck manufacturer, see Nikola Motor Company. For the German TV show, see Nikola (TV series).
Nikola
Gender Feminine or Masculine
Language(s) Slavic
Origin
Word/name Greek
Meaning victory of the people (from Nikolaos)
Region of origin Southeastern Europe
Other names
Nickname(s) Niko
Derived Nikolaos
Related names Miklos, Mikołaj, Mikuláš, Nicholas, Nicola, Nicolas, Nikolaos, Nicolau, Nicolay, Niccolò, Nikolay, Nikolaj, Nick, Nico, Nicolina, Nicole
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Nikola (Cyrillic: Никола, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [nǐkola]) is a unisex given name, derived from Greek Nikolaos (Νικόλαος), common in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. Besides the name "Nikola", in Macedonia there is a name "Nikolče" (Николче), which is a diminutive of the name "Nikola". In Poland, it is used as a female name, as is done with Nicola in the UK and Germany.

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