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All over the world, Nikefor (Никифор
, Νικηφόρος
, Nikefor
) is quite a rare masculine given name. The forename Nikefor is habitual in Bulgaria, where it is quite a common boy's name, Kazakhstan, where it is quite a rare male name, and Ukraine. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in Eastern Europe, particularly Bulgaria, Russia, and Ukraine. Much less frequently, Nikefor is the last name as well as the forename.
Nikefor is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Nikifor Lyapis-Trubetskoy , the fictional character in Ilf and Petrov's novel The Twelve Chairs.