Nikola


Gender	Feminine or Masculine
Language(s)	Slavic
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	victory of the people (from Nikolaos)
Region of origin	Eastern Europe
Nickname(s)	Niko
Derived	Nikolaos
Related names	Miklos, Mikołaj, , Nicholas, , , Nikolaos, Nicolau, , Niccolò, , Nikolaj, , Nico, , Nicole
Popularity	see popular names

Nikola (Cyrillic: Никола, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [nǐkola]) is a unisex given name which, like Nicola and Nicholas, is a version of the Greek Nikolaos (Νικόλαος), common in Slavic countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. 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 in the UK and Germany.

The spelling with K, Nikola, reflects romanization of the Cyrillic spelling, while Nicola reflects Italian usage.