Nikiforos
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɲicifɔɹoʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nikiforos is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 175K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 705K
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 Nikiforos 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈360 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nikiforou in CY Cyprus, DE Germany and Νικηφορου in GR Greece.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nikiforos 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 10 | Νικηφορου | 67 |
| CY Cyprus | 91as Νικηφορος | 1 in 14K | 91 | Nikiforou | 29 |
| US United States | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 5.6M | listed | Nikiforos | 50 |
| DE Germany | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | listed | Nikiforou | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 42 | Nikiforos | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 986K | — | Nikiforos | 6 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | Nikiforos | 4 |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the de-munich-vornamen register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Nikiforos Alygizakisb. 1991GRresearcher
- Nikiforos Michalariasb. 1995GRGreek painter (born 1995)
- Nikiforos Arvanitoub. 2003GRGreek cyclist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2018 | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Nikiforos?
- A machine transcription gives /ɲicifɔɹoʊz/ (IPA) for Greek.
- Is Nikiforos a male or female name?
- Nikiforos 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.
- In which country does Nikiforos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 356 people named Nikiforos in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled νικηφορου.
- How common is the name Nikiforos?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 2 people named Nikiforos in 2026, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nikiforos?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nikiforosThe 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, “Nikiforos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.