Nikandra
From Greek, it carries the sense of "victory of a man". Fewer than 40 women in Poland answer to it, and almost none have been born in recent years, so most Poles will go a lifetime without meeting one.
Nikandra Pronunciation
Nikandra is pronounced nyee-KAHND-rah (/ɲiˈkandra/).
What Nikandra means
Where Nikandra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nikandra grows from two Greek words. Nike meant victory. Andros meant of a man, in the genitive. Together they give the gloss recorded here: victory of a man, or in Polish zwycięstwo męża.
The masculine form came first. Nikandros, Latinised as Nicander, belonged to Nicander of Colophon, a Greek poet and physician of the second century BC. He left two surviving poems on venomous animals and the antidotes for their bites. The feminine Nikandra turns that same compound toward a girl who carries it.
In a Polish class register the name sits rare and unmistakable among the Zuzannas and Oliwias. It has no established diminutive here and no fixed name-day. What stays fixed is the Greek root: nike, victory, joined to andros, of a man.
When Nikandra celebrates name day
Nikandra appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 15 March.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Nikandra
1 in 593259 women in Poland is named Nikandra. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6376 among female names.
Nikandra's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Nikandra as a middle name
Nikandra is a first name for 38 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3077th, between Nijola (7) and Nkem (7).
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