Nicéphore

given name · Latin script

Meaning: From Greek Nikephoros, meaning 'bringer of victory'

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

Nicéphore is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Martinique.

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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(measured from records)

From Greek Nikephoros, meaning 'bringer of victory'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nicéphore counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Nicéphore is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
MQ Martinique—5—
GP Guadeloupe—5—
CD Congo - Kinshasa—listed—
FR France—listed—

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); the french-names-benoist-2009 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nicéphore is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nicephore

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Nicephore

  • Swahili name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Nicephore

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Nicephore, Nicèphore

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1800185019001950Charles Sauvestre, b. 1818Nicéphore Lessard, b. 1879Nicéphore Soglo, b. 1934

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 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Nicéphore
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceDictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

What does the name Nicéphore mean, and where does it come from?
From Greek Nikephoros, meaning 'bringer of victory'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Nicéphore a male or female name?
Nicéphore 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.
What are other forms of the name Nicéphore?
In the etymology graph, Nikifor is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Nicéphore have the most bearers?
Nicéphore is most frequently recorded in Martinique.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nic%C3%A9phore

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, “Nicéphore”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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