Nick
A name most Poles have never come across: fewer than 150 people carry it, and every one of them is a man. It comes from Greek, meaning "victory of the people".
Nick Pronunciation
What Nick means
Where Nick comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nick reaches back to the Greek Nikolaos, formed from nikē, meaning victory, and laos, meaning the people. Put together, the name reads as victory of the people. English speakers took the longer form and clipped it, and Nick stood on its own.
The short form did well in English. It belongs to Saint Nicholas, the fourth-century bishop of Myra whose generosity later grew into the figure of Father Christmas. A boy named Nick shares a root with that story, though the plain sense stays fixed on victory and the crowd who claims it.
In a Polish class register, Nick now turns up among the Nikodems and Mikołajs, an English spelling on a home-grown page. It is short. Two letters do the work at the start, and the rest follows fast. Whatever the name suggests, its meaning holds steady: nikē and laos, the victory that belongs to the people.
How many people are named Nick
1 in 146207 men in Poland is named Nick. 146 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2686 among male names.
Nick's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1758 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Nick as a middle name
Nick is a first name for 146 men in Poland and a middle name for another 33, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1456th, between Naidu (33) and Petroniusz (33).
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#1454 Min33
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#1455 Naidu33
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#1456 Nick33
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#1457 Petroniusz33
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#1458 Rolando33