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 [ 3 syll. ni-ko-lai, nik-ol-ai ] The boy name Nikolai is pronounced NIHKowLAY KEY. Nikolai has its origins in the Old Greek language. It is used largely in Estonian and Russian. Nikolai is a variant form of Nicholas (English and French). Nikolai is also a spelling variant (Estonian and Russian) of Nikolaj (Russian). The pet forms Kolja (Russian) and Kolya (Russian) are variants of the name. Nikolai is somewhat popular as a baby boy name. The name's popularity has been growing since the 2000s; before that, it was of only very modest use. Its usage peaked recently in 2008 with 0.011% of baby boys being named Nikolai. It was #902 in rank then. In 2008, among the family of boy names directly related to Nikolai, Nicholas (English and French) was the most regularly used. It was 54 times more widely used than Nikolai in that year. Baby names that sound like Nikolai include Nicolae (Romanian), Neacal (Scottish), Niccolo (Italian), Niccolò (Italian), Nicola (German and Italian), Nicolai (Russian and Scandinavian), Nicolao (Spanish), Nicolau (Catalan and Portuguese), Nicolo (Italian), Nicolò (Italian), Nikola (Hungarian and Slavic), Nikolais (Latvian), Nikolaj (Russian), Nikula (Czech), Nichol (English), Nichole (English), Nicol (English and Scottish), Nicolaio (Portuguese), Nicole (French), and Nigel (English and Spanish). A famous person named Nikolai is Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov (Czar Nicholas II), Russian Czar, born 6 May 1868 - 16 July 1918. KEY: English pronunciation for Nikolai: N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; AY as in "hide (HH.AY.D)"   |
