Nikoletta
From Greek, the name reads as "victory of the people." Only about a thousand Polish women carry it, so meeting one stays with you, and it's given a touch more often now than a decade ago.
Nikoletta Pronunciation
Nikoletta is pronounced nyee-ko-LET-tah (/ɲikɔˈlɛtta/).
What Nikoletta means
Where Nikoletta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nikoletta grows from Greek roots. The name traces to Nikolaos, built from nikē, victory, and laos, the people, so its short meaning reads as victory of the people, or in Polish zwycięstwo ludu. It is the feminine line of that old compound.
Polish speakers know its close relatives well. Nikol and Nikola stand as variants, while Nika works as the everyday diminutive, short enough for a school register. Each keeps the Greek sense of a triumph that belongs to a crowd rather than one ruler.
The doubled letters give Nikoletta an Italian and Hungarian flavor, and the name reached Poland through that wider European family. On a name-day form at the urząd, it sits beside the more common Nikola. What stays constant under every spelling is the meaning carried from Greek: victory of the people.
How many people are named Nikoletta
1 in 21429 women in Poland is named Nikoletta. 1,052 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #937 among female names.
Nikoletta's popularity over time
6 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #884 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2019.
Where Nikoletta is most popular
Nikoletta is most popular in Lubusz, 1351% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+217%) and Masovian (+103%).
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Lubusz2 girls born+1351%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+217%
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Masovian2 girls born+103%
Nikoletta as a middle name
Nikoletta is a first name for 1,052 women in Poland and a middle name for another 132, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 571st, between Yvonne (133) and Laurencja (131).
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569
133Beatrycze
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570
133Yvonne
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571132Nikoletta
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572
131Laurencja
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573
130Andżelina