Nicolas
Meaning of Nicolas
Nicolas is a well-traveled charmer—born from the Greek Nikolaos, “victory of the people,” polished in France as nee-KO-lah, and happily answering to the English NIK-uh-lus. Thanks to legendary do-gooder Saint Nicholas (the original Santa) and modern namesakes like actor Nicolas Cage and novelist Nicholas Sparks, the name carries a sleighful of goodwill and creative sparkle. In the United States it’s quietly dependable, hovering in the Top 200 for decades—popular enough to feel familiar, yet rare enough for your little Nico or Cole to stand out on the playground roll call. With its friendly rhythm, cross-cultural ease, and built-in nicknames that grow from sandbox to boardroom, Nicolas offers parents a timeless passport stamped with warmth, generosity, and just a hint of cinematic flair.
Pronunciation
French
- Pronunced as nee-KO-lah (/ni.ko.la/)
English
- Pronunced as NIK-uh-lus (/ˈnɪkələs/)
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Notable People Named Nicolas
| Nicolas Sarkozy served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. |
| Nicolas Cage is an American actor and producer known for versatile roles across genres with a devoted cult following and major awards including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. |
| Nicolas Schöffer - Nicolas Schoffer was a Hungarian born French cybernetic artist who lived in France from 1936 until his death in Montmartre, Paris in 1992. |
| Nicolas Poussin was a French classical Baroque painter, mainly active in Rome, known for clear and ordered religious and mythological scenes and later landscapes, influencing David, Ingres, and Cezanne. |
| Nicolas Fatio de Duillier was a Swiss mathematician and natural philosopher who worked with Cassini on zodiacal light, proposed a push theory of gravity, introduced the integrating factor, pioneered jewel bearings for watches, and took part in the Newton and Leibniz calculus dispute. |
| Nicolas Winding Refn is a Danish filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. |
| Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot was a French military engineer and physicist whose 1824 book Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, his only publication, established the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of heat engines. |
| Nicolas Dupont-Aignan is a French politician who has led the minor party Debout la France since 2008, was its sole National Assembly member for the eighth constituency of Essonne from 1997, and served as mayor of Yerres from 1995 to 2017. |
| Nicolas Hulot is a French journalist and environmental activist who founded the Nicolas Hulot Foundation in 1990 and serves as its honorary president. |
| Nicolas Ghesquière - French Belgian designer Nicolas Ghesquiere has been the womenswear creative director at Louis Vuitton since 2013. |
| Nicolas Oliveira - Nicolas Nilo Cesar de Oliveira is a Brazilian former freestyle swimmer and sprint specialist. |
| Sebastien Roch Nicolas, known as Nicolas Chamfort, was a French writer famed for epigrams and aphorisms who served as secretary to Madame Elisabeth, sister of Louis XVI, and to the Jacobin Club. |
| Nicolas de Staël - Nicolas de Stael was a Russian-born French painter famed for thick impasto, abstract landscapes, and work in collage, illustration, and textiles. |
| Nicolas Jaar is a Chilean American composer and musician known for albums like Space Is Only Noise, Sirens, and Cenizas, plus three albums with Darkside and two under the alias Against All Logic. |
| Nicolas Hardy Walter was a British anarchist and atheist writer and activist who joined the Committee of 100 and Spies for Peace and championed anarchism and humanism. |
