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In all the world, Nikifor (Никифор , Nikifor , Νικηφόρος ) is quite a rare male forename. The first name Nikifor is habitual in Bulgaria, where it is quite a common masculine name, Kazakhstan, where it is quite a rare boy's name, and Ukraine. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Eastern Europe, particularly Bulgaria, Russia, and Ukraine. Much less frequently, Nikifor is the last name as well as the forename.
Nikifor 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.