Around the world, Nikolay (Николай 
, Nikolay 
, ניקולאי 
, and others...) is a prevalent boy's forename. The first name Nikolay is characteristic of Russia, where it is a prevalent boy's name, Kazakhstan, and Bulgaria, where it is a common masculine name (explore the name in all countries). Much less frequently, Nikolay is the last name as well as the forename.
Nikolay is also a name from the Bible. Explore more in our Biblical names portal!
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| Николай | Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Bulgaria |
| Nikolay | Uzbekistan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, United States |
| ניקולאי | Israel |
| نيكولاي | Yemen, Palestinian Territory, Iraq |
| 尼古拉 | China |
| ニコライ | Japan |
Mikalai, Mikalaj, Mikalay, Mikałaj, Miklavž, Miklos, Miklós, Mikola, Mikołaj, Mikuláš, Mikławš, Mykola, Mykoła, Niccolò, Nicholas, Nickel, Nicolaas, Nicolae, Nicolaes, Nicolas, Nicolau, Nicolay, Nicolino, Nicolo, Nicolás, Nicolò, Nicos, Nicu, Niels, Nikolai, Nikolai, Nikolaj, Nikolaj, Nikolajs, Nikolajus, Nikolao, Nikolaos, Nikolas, Nikolass, Nikolaus, Nikolaz, Nikolaï, Nikolaĭ, Nikolos, Nikoloz, Nikolái, Nikoláy, Nikos, Nikołaj, Nikulás, Nils,
Nikolay is also a prevalent name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Prince Nikolay Bolkonsky , the father of Prince Andrey Bolkonsky, War and Peace; Nikolay Gerasimov , character in The Cardinal of the Kremlin; Nikolay Andreyevich Bolkonsky , the operatic character in the opera Krieg und Frieden, War and Peace; Nicholai Zinoviev , the fictional character from the video game series Resident Evil, Resident Evil 3 and Nicholas , the Christian saint and deacon referred to in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, and in many other works.
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nikolay muravyov Russian military personnel (1724-1770), FR (b. 1724) |
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nikolay durnovo (b. 1725) |
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nikolay bogdanovich engelhardt Russian civil servant (b. 1737) |
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nikolay arsenyev Russian aristocrat and general (b. 1739) |
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nikolay tatishchev (b. 1739) |
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nikolay morkov (b. 1743) |
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nikolay zagryazhsky (b. 1746) |
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nikolay golitsyn (b. 1751) |
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nikolay obreskov governor of Moscow (b. 1764) |
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| nikolay vasilyev (b. 1706) |
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| nikolay samarin (b. 1707) |
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nikolay emelyanov Russian general (b. 1768) |
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nikolay kazin Russian military sailor, admiral (b. 1770) |
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| nikolay zherebtsov (b. 1713) |
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nikolay kantakuzen (b. 1763) |
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Kolev, Nikolov, Nikitin, Novikov, Hristov, Vasilev, Fedorov, Mihaylov, Simeonov, Stepanov, Stefanov, Stoyanov, Atanasov, Bogdanov, Dimitrov, Georgiev, Tsvetkov, Naydenov, Nikolaev, Yordanov, Kovalenko, Kuznetsov, Todorov, Nedelchev, Lebedev, Romanov, Popov, Dimov, Iliev, Markov, Kostov, Kozlov, Pavlov, Petrov, Petkov, Volkov, Ivanov, Marinov, Makarov, Morozov, Sokolov, Smirnov, Andreev, Angelov, Antonov, Borisov, Krastev, Lazarov, and Aleksandrov