Nikanor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: de niké, victoire et orao, Voir
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/nikanɔr/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Nikanor is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 45K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 65K
- MDMoldova1 in 6.4Kas Nicanor
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 Nikanor itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
3,445 named Nicanor, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Nicanor in ES Spain, US United States.
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)de niké, victoire et orao, Voir. Fêtes : 4 (17) janvier, 28 juillet (10 août), 28 décembre {10 janvier). Nicanor est son équivalent français. Fête : 10 janvier. 97
Cited for this meaning 1
- Russian Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nikanor 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 3,445as Nicanor | 1 in 61K | 4.8K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 1,965as Nicanor | 1 in 25K | 2.1K | Nicanor | 2 |
| US United States | 1,882as Nicanor | 1 in 177K | 1.9K | Nicanor | 6 |
| VE Venezuela | 1,505as Nicanor | 1 in 19K | 1.5K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | 1,275as Nicanor | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| MD Moldova | 529as Nicanor | 1 in 6.4K | 529 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 167as Nicanor | 1 in 20K | 167 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 158 | 1 in 65K | 158 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 125 | 1 in 45K | 375 | — | 1 |
3,445 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; e-services.md — living population register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Nikanor 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 Russian, "seeing victory."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)- Nicanor the Deaconb. 1CYnot in their usual nameAncient Roman saint
- Nicanor the Elephantb. 250not in their usual namemilitary in service of Philip V
- Nicanor of Stageirab. 400GRnot in their usual nameMacedonian officer
- Nicanor Cáceresb. 1813ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian military personnel
- Nicanor Molinasb. 1823ARnot in their usual nameArgentine politician
- Nikanor Zakhvatayevb. 1898RUSoviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union (1898–1963)
- Nykanor Deynehab. 1907UAClandestine Bishop
- Canitob. 1931ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player (1931-1998)
- Nicanor de Carvalhob. 1947BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player and manager
- Nicanor Duarteb. 1956PYnot in their usual name46.° President of Paraguay
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Nikanor?
- In the etymology graph, Nicanor is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Nikanor?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /nikanɔr/; in Spanish /nikanoɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Nikanor a male or female name?
- Nikanor is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Finland (DVV).
- What does the name Nikanor mean?
- Recorded meaning: de niké, victoire et orao, Voir.
- In which country does Nikanor have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Nicanor, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nikanor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nikanor is densest in Finland — about 1 in 45 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nikanor?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 158 people named Nikanor, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nikanor?
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/nikanorThe 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, “Nikanor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.