Surname Spotlight: Nikolas

Nikolas is a familiar spelling of the French name Nicolas. The name is generally explained as “Victory of the people”. Nikolas writes “k” in place of the “c” found in Nicolas, a common scribal difference. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Nikola, Nikolai and Nikolay.

The 2010 census count for Nikolas in the United States was 318, good for rank 62,903.

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