Mykola
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mikoʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mykola is a 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.
- PLPoland1 in 836(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 191K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 39as Микола
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 Mykola 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)
- #156 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- 1 in 836 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 named Микола, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 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 across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mykola 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #8 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 39 | listed | Микола | 162 |
| PL Poland | #907 | 45,792 | 1 in 836 | 46K | Mykola | 80 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,135 | 1 in 23K | 2.1K | Mykola | 60 |
| US United States | — | 1,739 | 1 in 191K | 1.7K | Mykola | 215 |
| NO Norway | — | 887 | 1 in 6.2K | 3.5K | — | 12 |
| LV Latvia | — | 509 | 1 in 3.7K | 509 | Микола | 11 |
| EE Estonia | #428 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 9 | Mykola | 10 |
| IS Iceland | — | 62 | 1 in 5.7K | 62 | — | — |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mykola 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 Ukrainian male given name Мико́ла (Mykóla), equivalent to Nicholas.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Mykola?
- A machine transcription gives /mikoʊɫə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- What are other forms of the name Mykola?
- In the etymology graph, Nicholas, Nickolas and Nikolas are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Mykola a male or female name?
- Mykola 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 Mykola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Микола in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mykola most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mykola is densest in Poland — about 1 in 836 people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mykola?
- In Poland, the national register counted 45,792 people named Mykola in 2026, about 1 in 836 residents.
- How common is Mykola compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Mykola is the 8th most common given name of 85,149 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mykola?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mykolaThe 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, “Mykola” — the 8th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.