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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!
VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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Николай | Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Russia |
Nikolay | Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, United States, Russia, Uzbekistan |
ניקולאי | Israel |
نيكولاي | Iraq, Palestinian Territory, Yemen |
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.
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