Nicoláe
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nicoláe is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Taken from Old Church Slavonic Николаи (Nikolai), from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos). Doublet of Nicoară.
- MDMoldova1 in 77(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 190
- ISIceland1 in 4.8K
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 Nicoláe 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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- 1 in 77 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nicolae in RO Romania, MD Moldova, ES Spain and 2 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)- Old Church SlavonicНиколаиNikolai(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΝικόλαοςNikólaos(measured from records)
Taken from Old Church Slavonic Николаи (Nikolai), from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos). Doublet of Nicoară.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nicoláe 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.
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: DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nicoláe mean, and where does it come from?
- Taken from Old Church Slavonic Николаи (Nikolai), from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos). Doublet of Nicoară. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- Is Nicoláe a male or female name?
- Nicoláe 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Nicoláe?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Nicoláe in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nicolae. After it come Moldova, Spain, Italy and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nicoláe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nicoláe is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 77 people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nicoláe?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 43,569 people named Nicoláe, about 1 in 77 residents.
- How common is Nicoláe compared with other names?
- In Romania, Nicoláe is the 18th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nicoláe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nicol%C3%A1eThe 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, “Nicoláe” — the 18th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.