Nicôlai

given name · Latin script

Nicôlai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the personal name Nicolao.

rarermore common
  • MDMoldova1 in 103(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 605
  • NONorway1 in 1.8K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Moldova (measured from records)

32,823 people

Sources
46 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 103 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nicolai in MD Moldova, NO Norway, US United States and 1 more.

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 the personal name Nicolao.

Sources 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nicôlai 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 Nicôlai is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MD Moldova#74832,8231 in 10333KNicolai4
DK Denmark—9,7001 in 6059.7K—1
NO Norway—3,0741 in 1.8K11KNicolai46
US United States—1,8191 in 183K2KNicolai26
PL Poland—1,0791 in 35K1.1K——
SE Sweden—7551 in 14K755Nicolai5
IS Iceland—161 in 22K16——

32,823 people counted by e-services.md — living population register. 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: e-services.md — living population register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nicôlai under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nicôlai mean, and where does it come from?
From the personal name Nicolao. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 6 other sources.
Is Nicôlai a male or female name?
Nicôlai 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 Nicôlai have the most bearers?
In Moldova, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Nicôlai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nicolai.
Where is Nicôlai most common?
Nicôlai is densest in Moldova, where the national register counts about 1 in 103 people carrying it.
How common is the name Nicôlai?
In Moldova, the national register counted 32,823 people named Nicôlai, about 1 in 103 residents.
How common is Nicôlai compared with other names?
In Moldova, Nicôlai is the 748th most common given name of 1,433 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, “Nicôlai” — the 748th most common given name in Moldova. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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