Nikifor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Greek Niképhoros ‘bringer of victory’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɲicifɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nikifor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 57Kas Никифор(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 124Kas Никифор
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 134Kas Никифор
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 Nikifor 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 named Никифор, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Никифор in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
From Greek Niképhoros ‘bringer of victory’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nikifor 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 124K | #239 | Никифор | 115 |
| UA Ukraine | #589 | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Никифор | 17 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Nikifor | 45 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 134K | 20 | Никифор | 23 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 73as Никифор | 1 in 29K | 73 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 27 | 1 in 1.4M | 27 | Nikifor | 13 |
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: the russian-names-pereverzeva-2011 register; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; State Statistical Office — living population names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nikifor is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "victorious."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Russian, de niképhoros, composé de niké, victoire et phoros, porteur.
as a nameRussian Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nikifor Lebedevb. 1799RURussian physician
- Archimandrite Nicephorusb. 1832RUnot in their usual nameRussian Orthodox religious writer (1832–1895)
- Nikifor Okhotnikovb. 1860Russian pedagogue
- Nikifor Zeninb. 1869RURussian painter
- Nykyfor Hryhoriivb. 1883UAUkrainian revolutionary, educator, and journalist (1883–1953)
- Nykyfor Hirniakb. 1885UAUkrainian educator, publicist, military officer, public figure
- Nikifor Nikiforovb. 1889BGBulgarian military officer
- Nikiforb. 1895PLLemko naïve painter (1895–1968)
- Nikifor Lozanovb. 1903Bulgarian footballer
- Nikifor Popovb. 1911RUSoviet long-distance runner (1911-1983)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 27 | #4,801 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 27 | #5,253 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2020 | 2 | — |
| RU Russia | Russian Names (Pereverzeva, 2011) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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 Nikifor mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Niképhoros ‘bringer of victory’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Nikifor?
- A machine transcription gives /ɲicifɔɹ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Nikifor a male or female name?
- Nikifor 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.
- What are other forms of the name Nikifor?
- In the etymology graph, Nicéphore is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nikifor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Никифор in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nikifor?
- In Poland, the national register counted 27 people named Nikifor in 2026, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Nikifor compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Nikifor is the 589th most common given name of 85,149 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nikifor?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nikiforThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Nikifor” — the 589th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.