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nikolai Name Meaning and History

North German and Dutch: from the Latin genitive case (patronymic) of the personal name Nikolaus (see Nicholas).

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Distribution of nikolai Families in the US in 1920
Number of nikolai families
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 2-3
 1
 0
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