Nikola

Nikola
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Gender	Feminine or Masculine
Language(s)	Slavic
Origin
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	victory of the people (from Nikolaos)
Region of origin	Southeastern Europe
Other names
Nickname(s)	Niko
Derived	Nikolaos
Related names	Miklos, Mikołaj, Mikuláš, Nicholas, Nicola, Nicolas, Nikolaos, Nicolau, Nicolay, Niccolò, Nikolay, Nikolaj, Nick, Nico, Nicolina, Nicole
Popularity	see popular names

Nikola (Cyrillic: Никола, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [nǐkola]) is a unisex given name, derived from Greek Nikolaos (Νικόλαος), common in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. Besides the name "Nikola", in Macedonia there is a name "Nikolče" (Николче), which is a diminutive of the name "Nikola". In Poland, it is used as a female name, as is done with Nicola in the UK and Germany.

People

• Nikola Mirosavljević (13th century), Serbian nobility
• Nikola Altomanović (fl. 1371-1373, Serbian nobility
• Nikola Skobaljić (fl. 1454), Serbian voivode
• Nicholas I of Montenegro, King of Montenegro
• Prince Nikola of Yugoslavia (1928–1954), Serbian prince
• Nikola, Crown Prince of Montenegro (born 1944), Montenegrin prince
• Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter
• Nikola Brejchová, Czech athlete
• Nikola Frankopan, Croatian ban
• Nikola Grbić, Serbian volleyball player
• Nikola Gruevski, Macedonian Prime minister
• Nikola Hajdin, President of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Nikola Jerkan, Croatian footballer
• Nikola Jorgic, Bosnian Serb soldier
• Nikola Jovanović, Montenegrin footballer
• Nikola Jurčević, Croatian footballer
• Nikola Karabatić, French team handball player
• Nikola Karev, Macedonian revolutionary
• Nikola Kavaja, Serbian anti-communists
• Nikola Kljusev, Macedonian politician
• Nikola Kochovski, Macedonian footballer
• Nikola Kojo, Serbian actor
• Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer
• Nikola Kovachev, Bulgarian footballer
• Nikola Kranjčar, Croatian footballer
• Nikola Kuljača, Serbian waterpolo goalkeeper
• Nikola Langer, manager of Czech singer Aneta Langerová
• Nikola Lazetić, Serbian footballer
• Nikola Ljubičić, Serbian politician
• Nikola Mandić, Croatian politician
• Nikola Martinovski, Macedonian painter
• Nikola Mijailović (singer), Serbian opera singer
• Nikola Mijailović (footballer), Serbian footballer
• Nikola Milojević, Serbian football goalkeeper
• Nikola Milošević (politician), Serbian intellectual
• Nikola Milošević (footballer), Serbian football midfielder
• Nikola Mirotić, Spanish basketball player of Montenegrin descent
• Nikola Modruški, Croatian catholic priest
• Nikola Moravčević, Serbian academic
• Nikola Moushmov, Bulgarian historian
• Nikola Mushanov, Bulgarian politician
• Nikola Nešković, Serbian painter
• Nikola Nikezić, Montenegrin footballer
• Nikola Nikić, Bosnian Serb footballer
• Nikola Nimac, Croatian racer
• Nikola Obreshkov, Bulgarian mathematician
• Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician and diplomat
• Nikola Peković, Montenegrin basketball player
• Nikola Petroff, Bulgarian wrestler
• Nikola Pilić, Yugoslav Croat professional tennis player
• Nikola Rakočevič, Serbian actor
• Nikola Resanovic, Serbian-American composer
• Nikola Ristanovski, Macedonian actor
• Nikola Sarcevic, Swedish thrash rock musician
• Nikola Šećeroski, Serbian politician
• Nikola Stojić, Serbian rower
• Nikola Špirić, Bosnian Serb politician
• Nikola Šubić Zrinski, Croatian-Hungarian ban
• Nikola Sudová, Czech freestyle skier
• Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor, physicist, and mechanical engineer
• Nikola Uzunović, Serbian politician
• Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet
• Nikola Vignjević, Serbian footballer
• Nikola Vitov Gučetić, Ragusian statesman
• Nikola Velevski, Macedonian bassist in the bands After Dark and Unending Fury
• Nikola Vučević, Montenegrin basketball player
• Nikola Vujčić, Croatian basketball player
• Nikola Zhekov, Bulgarian military
• Nikola Žigić, Serbian footballer
• Nikola Radosavljević
• Nicholas Nikola Ribic, Serbian-Canadian convicted for hostaging

Fictional characters

• Doctor Nikola, a fictional supervillain in works of Guy Boothby
• Nikola, a Call of Duty zombie character.

See also

• Nikola (TV series)
• Nikolić, surname