Nikon
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nikon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country. In Russian, recorded as "to win".
- EEEstonia≈1 in 352K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 592K
- PLPoland1 in 911K
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 Nikon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Moldova (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 352K (inferred from the name graph)
163 named Nicon
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
"to win."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nikon is read(measured from records)
Nikon is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Thai32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nikon in Thai.
- English22%
Japanese camera co.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nikon in Spanish.
- Ukrainian8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nikon in Ukrainian.
- Russian7.3%
"to win."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
de nékonos, qui remporte la victoire. Fêtes : 23 mars (5 avril), 23 juin (6 juillet), 28 septembre (1 octobre), 7 (20) novembre, 17 (30) novembre, 11 (24) décembre. Nicon est son équivalent français. Fêtes : 23 mars, 17 novembre, 26 novembre.
as a nameRussian Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nikon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | 163as Nicon | 1 in 21K | 163 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Nikon | 15 |
| US United States | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 5M | listed | Nikon | 81 |
| RU Russia | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | — | 5 |
| PL Poland | 42 | 1 in 911K | 42 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Nikon | 11 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | 31 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 1as Nicon | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
163 people counted by e-services.md — living population register. 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: e-services.md — living population register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the ee-stat-nimed register; the russian-names-pereverzeva-2011 register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nikon of Montenegrob. 1025TRsoldier, monk and Byzantine writer
- Nikon of Radonezhb. 1352RURussian monk (1352–1426)
- Nikonb. 1861GEarchbishop in the Orthodox Russian Church (1861 - 1908)
- Nikon Tomashovb. 1905RUSoviet physical chemist (1905-1994)
- Nikonb. 1945USAmerican bishop (1945-2019)
- Nikonb. 1950RUarchbishop in the Russian Orthodox Church
- Nikon El Maestrob. 1993RSassociation football player (born 1993)
- Nikon the DryRussian saint
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 42 | #3,772 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 41 | #3,575 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 31 | #1,196 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 13 | #2,535 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2019 | 4 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| RU Russia | Russian Names (Pereverzeva, 2011) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nikon mean, and where does it come from?
- "to win." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- In which country does Nikon have the most bearers?
- In Moldova, the national register counted about 163 people named Nicon, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Nikon a male or female name?
- Nikon is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Nikon?
- In Poland, the national register counted 42 people named Nikon in 2026, about 1 in 911 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nikonThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nikon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.