Mykoła

given name · Latin script

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

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

Mykoła is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 39as Микола(inferred from the name graph)
  • PLPoland1 in 836as Mykola
  • USUnited States1 in 191Kas Mykola

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mykoła itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,100,000 named Микола, est.

#156 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
215 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 39 (inferred from the name graph)

Ukraine, est., as Микола

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
МиколаCyrillic(measured from records)
MykolaLatin(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mykola in PL Poland, US United States, ES Spain and 1 more and Микола in UA Ukraine, LV Latvia.

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

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mykoła 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.

Where Mykoła is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine#8≈1,100,000 est.≈1 in 39listedМикола162
PL Poland#90745,792as Mykola1 in 83646KMykola80
ES Spain—2,135as Mykola1 in 23K2.1KMykola60
US United States—1,739as Mykola1 in 191K1.7KMykola215
NO Norway—887as Mykola1 in 6.2K3.5K—12
LV Latvia—509as Mykola1 in 3.7K509Микола11
EE Estonia#428≈280 est.≈1 in 4.3K9Mykola10
IS Iceland—62as Mykola1 in 5.7K62——

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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
18001850190019502000Nikolai Gogol, b. 1809Mykola Kostomarov, b. 1817Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz, b. 1823Nikolay Dobrolyubov, b. 1836Mykola Lysenko, b. 1842Mykola Pidhornyi, b. 1903Mykola Bazhan, b. 1904Nick Adams, b. 1931Mykola Azarov, b. 1947Nikolay Davydenko, b. 1981
  • Nikolai Gogolb. 1809UAnot in their usual nameRussian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
  • Mykola Kostomarovb. 1817RURussian-Ukrainian historian, founder of modern Ukrainian historiography, and a leader of the Ukrainian national revival (1817-1885)
  • Mikołaj Zyblikiewiczb. 1823UAnot in their usual nameAustrian member of Austrian empire council, educator, lawyer and regional mayor (1823-1887)
  • Nikolay Dobrolyubovb. 1836RUnot in their usual nameRussian critic and philosopher
  • Mykola Lysenkob. 1842UAUkrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist (1842–1912)
  • Mykola Pidhornyib. 1903UASoviet politician (1903-1983)
  • Mykola Bazhanb. 1904UAUkrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure (1904–1983)
  • Nick Adamsb. 1931USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and screenwriter (1931-1968)
  • Mykola Azarovb. 1947UAUkrainian politician (born 1947)
  • Nikolay Davydenkob. 1981RUnot in their usual nameRussian tennis player

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)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Mykoła
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—59#2,788
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202656#3,100

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Mykoła a male or female name?
Mykoła 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.
In which country does Mykoła have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Микола in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Mykoła?
In Poland, the national register counted 45,792 people named Mykola in 2026, about 1 in 836 residents.
How common is Mykoła compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Mykoła is the 8th most common given name of 85,149 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Mykoła?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/myko%C5%82a

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

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, “Mykoła” — the 8th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

See how Mykoła parses inside a full name →