Mikołaj
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mikołaj is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 270(measured from records)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 21K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 270 (inferred from the name graph)
141,544 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mikołaj counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #167 | 141,544 | 1 in 270 | 142K | Mikołaj | 102 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Mikołaj | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 635K | — | Mikołaj | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 838K | 2 | Mikołaj | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | listed | Mikołaj | 21 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | Mikołaj | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 754K | — | Mikołaj | 5 |
141,544 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mikołaj 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 Polish, Nicolas, Nicholas
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mikołaj Sieniawskib. 1489UAPolish politician
- Mikołaj Rejb. 1505UAPolish poet and prose writer, politician and musician of the Renaissance (1505-1569)
- Mikołaj Radziwiłł Czarnyb. 1515BYLithuanian noble (1515-1565)
- Mikołaj Zyblikiewiczb. 1823UAAustrian member of Austrian empire council, educator, lawyer and regional mayor (1823-1887)
- Mikołaj Kruszewskib. 1851UAlinguist (1851-1887)
- Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionisb. 1875LTnot in their usual nameLithuanian painter, composer and writer (1875-1911)
- Nicholas Romanovb. 1922ITnot in their usual nameItalian historian and businessperson (1922-2014)
- Mikołaj Kozakiewiczb. 1923PLPolish politician and sociologist (1923-1998)
- Wojciech Zabłockib. 1930PLnot in their usual namePolish architect and fencer (1930-2020)
- Henryk Góreckib. 1933PLnot in their usual namePolish composer (1933–2010)
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(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mikołaj mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Nicholas Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Mikołaj have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 142 thousand people named Mikołaj, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mikołaj.
- Where is Mikołaj most common?
- Mikołaj is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 270 people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Mikołaj?
- In the etymology graph, Nicolas, Nicholas and Nick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Mikołaj a male or female name?
- Mikołaj is a male 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.
- How common is the name Mikołaj?
- In Poland, the national register counted 141,544 people named Mikołaj in 2026, about 1 in 270 residents.
- How common is Mikołaj compared with other names?
- In Poland, Mikołaj is the 167th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Mikołaj” — the 167th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.